Meet our Janome Canada Makers
Janome is dedicated to providing you with the best sewing experience possible, but the real magic happens when our machines are placed in the hands of creative individuals. We’ve brought together a diverse group of talented Canadian sewing artists to inspire you to create even more. We would love to hear form you.
Join our enthusiastic team and become a Janome Maker!
Ashley Chaumont
Ashley is a passionate Sewist from the Niagara Region of Ontario, who has turned her love for sewing into a thriving online presence. As a dedicated mom and wife, she balances her family life with her creative endeavors, sharing her expertise with a growing audience. Her YouTube channel, boasting over 100,000 subscribers, is a hub for sewing enthusiasts looking to learn and improve their skills. Ashley specializes in writing patterns and teaching sewing techniques, offering a variety of tutorials that cater to different skill levels. Her content covers a broad range of sewing projects, from intricate bag making and stylish garment creation to occasional quilting adventures. Constantly learning and expanding her sewing repertoire, Ashley is committed to helping others discover the joy of sewing and enhancing their craft. Ashley is thrilled to be joining the Janome Maker Team, where she will bring fun and exciting new projects to Janome Canada customers. With her creativity and expertise, she looks forward to inspiring and engaging with the Janome community, contributing to the vibrant world of sewing.
Bridget O’Flaherty
Bridget is a passionate textile artist and quilter with over 30 years of experience in the craft. Renowned for her intricate free-motion embroidery and nature-inspired creations, Bridget seamlessly blends quilting, felting, and stitching in her work. As “The Sustainable Quilter,” she advocates for eco-friendly practices, inviting others to join her in creating beautiful and sustainable works. Through her artistry and advocacy, Bridget aims to make a positive impact on the environment and foster a global community of conscious quilters.
Cassie Tatone
Cassie is a sewist, knitter, and craft enthusiast living in Montreal, Quebec. She shares the process behind her “me-made” wardrobe on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and loves engaging with the online sewing and maker communities. Offline, she hosts crafty monthly events with “Soft Crafts Club”, an in-person social hangout for all fiber artists and fiber arts enthusiasts. Cassie is currently learning French and will give an enthusiastic “Oui!” to coffee, croissants, cozy friend dates, and petting neighborhood cats.
Erin Kroeker
Erin Kroeker is a modern quilter, fibre artist and pattern designer inspired by the great outdoors. Quilting from the age of four with the help of her mom, she’s been creating and working with her hands ever since. In 2017, Erin took the leap and launched full-time into The Blanket Statement Quilt Co as a platform for her modern, geometric quilt & bag patterns (and so much more!). At that time, being a relative outsider to the quilting industry, Erin understood first-hand how overwhelming and intimidating quilting can seem. She made it her mission to design patterns that are not only modern, unique and eye-catching, but also accessible for quilters of all skill levels. She spends her time creating from her studio in Winnipeg, Canada where she lives with her husband, two children and golden retriever. Find Erin online at www.theblanketstatement.ca or on social media.
Jenn McMillan
Jennifer Long
Jennifer Long is an author, pattern writer and fabric designer for Riley Blake Designs and the founder of Sew A Story Ltd. Throughout her creative career she has managed both the quilt pattern and machine embroidery departments at Riley Blake Designs, overseeing the development of accurate and cohesive instructional patterns that support fabric releases for shops and makers around the world.
Jennifer began her career designing and ghost-writing quilt and craft patterns for major fabric companies while her children were young. Over the last decade, Jennifer has combined her background as a former professional ballet dancer, an early years educator, and her lifelong love of doll making to design fabrics, felt panels, dolls, and quilt projects under the Sew A Story company brand.
She is known for her innovative, copyrighted in-the-hoop (ITH) doll-making technique, which allows a fully stitched doll to be created with ease on a home embroidery machine, as well as years of designing and managing doll production overseas. In her own business, Jennifer runs block-of-the-month programs and memberships that are intentionally built to support quilt shops through coordinated projects, patterns, and storytelling-based samples.
Jennifer lives with her husband and their four teen and adult children on a rural acreage in Canada, where much of her creative work begins at the sewing machine and embroidery hoop in her home studio. Her first multi-project Quilting & Sewing book with David & Charles will launch in 2026.
Kaitlyn Heaton
Kaitlyn is the owner of All Bodies Custom Lingerie, where she makes custom undergarments for clients and teaches in-person bra-making workshops. When she isn’t busy sewing bras, she enjoys sewing garments for herself and children and Cosplays for the family. While she sewed sporadically growing up, Kaitlyn started her sewing practice in earnest in 2018, happy to finally have clothes that fit her height. Now, the majority of her wardrobe is self-made. Kaitlyn has always had a joy of playing dress-up, as her mother made costumes for her growing up. Now Kaitlyn makes elaborate cosplay outfits for herself and her family, even recently competing in a Cosplay Craftmanship Contest with her husband. One of Kaitlyn’s main values is learning, and she tries to challenge herself to learn something new with each project she makes. She looks forward to sharing lots of lingerie, garment, and cosplay sewing tips and tricks with the Janome community!
Kim Jamieson-Hirst
Owner of Chatterbox Quilts, Kim’s quilting business is dedicated to helping quilters learn and improve their skills. Kim’s is also a YouTube influencer whose upbeat personality and easy to understand tutorials attract viewers. She enjoys sharing her knowledge through her various online courses as well as through her Chatterbox Quilts’ YouTube channel, Chatterbox Quilts’ Crew group, and her private online membership, The Quilter’s Way, where members learn new techniques by creating projects. Kim has been a Janome Canada Artisan since 2016 and enjoys creating quilting and embroidery projects to spread the Janome love. Kim is helped in her quilt studio by her purry assistants, Victor and Salem who are always eager to lend a paw or two. When not quilting, Kim can be found binge watching shows on Netflix (the scarier, the better!), creating in her studio or filming videos with her hubby, Gary. Kim doesn’t believe in the quilt police but does believe that quilting is more than stitching an accurate 1⁄4” seam (if it ain’t fun, it ain’t quilting), that chocolate is an essential quilting tool, and that practice makes improvement… and you’re improving with each quilt you make!
Melissa Marginet
Melissa is an avid quilter whose passion is to teach and inspire other quilters. She is known for quilting with a walking foot and travels from her home in Manitoba across Canada to teach her techniques and empower quilters to quilt their own quilts on their home sewing machines. She has published a book on the topic, “Walking Foot Quilting Designs” and a second book, “Edge-to-Edge Walking Foot Quilting Designs” is set to release in April 2020. She has also published several quilt patterns. You can visit her website to find out more about her and see her work.
Shaina Godfrey
Shaina Godfrey is a self-taught quilter and textile artist based in Ontario, Canada. She founded her studio, Floating World Quilts, from her home, where she lives with her husband and their rescue dog, Gimli. All Floating World Quilts creations are made by Shaina and quilted on her Janome Skyline S6. Shaina started sewing in 2021 after receiving a sewing machine as a birthday gift.
Shaina enjoys working with patterns designed by other quilters, developing her own quilt designs, and experimenting with improv sewing using her fabric scraps. Through her work, she hopes to inspire quilters of all skill levels to create something, and feels strongly that the enjoyment of the process matters more than making a “perfect” quilt.
Beyond showcasing her quilts, Shaina offers a behind-the-scenes look at her creative process to inspire sewists to explore techniques and projects they’ve never tried before. She also plans to release her own quilt patterns in the future.
When she’s not quilting, Shaina enjoys taking care of her houseplants, gardening, baking, and getting lost in giant fantasy novels.
Trina Gallop
Trina is a shoe-lover, cake baker, sewing enthusiast, avid knitter, basset wrangler, and half-marathon runner. She shares all this and more over at her lifestyle blog Will Cook for Shoes. Ever since she can remember, Trina’s been one of those people who sees something and goes, “I can make that!” – and then usually does. When she’s not sewing, knitting, or baking for other people, you will find Trina hanging out with her two sweet Basset Hound boys (Buster and Baxter) and her husband Matt, in their home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Visit her website “Will Cook for Shoes” for more creative inspiration.
Wyatt Miller
Wyatt has been passionately pursuing his dream for over three years, and his journey continues to grow. He first discovered his love for sewing in Grade 9, though it wasn’t until after graduating high school that he fully reignited that passion. Since then, Wyatt has turned his creative interest into a serious endeavour, earning a diploma from Toronto Film School with a focus on fashion and design. Now, with three years of hands-on experience and formal education behind him, Wyatt is preparing to take the next step by enrolling in a business course to expand his skills and further develop his brand.
