About Us...

About Donna...

She grew up in a large family in Central Wisconsin, full of spit and vinegar.  She married young and had a family of her own, sometimes being a stay-at-home mom and other times working various places. She could never sit still, and always had something to work on, whether a knitting project, sewing clothes for the kids, or coaching the softball team. While she contributed adequately to the family, she knew she was capable of something larger. After a new marriage to "Saint Tom" the opportunity presented itself for her to start her own quilt shop. She opened Sew & Sew Quilts and Fabrics, a retail fabric shop, and offered long-arm quilting and classes to the public. Donna started small and worked hard to build the business into a comfortable career.  She and Lyn started designing quilt and wall hanging patterns in 1995.   In the process they brain-stormed the concept for Sew Easy Triangles, and a new branch of business was born. Now, in addition to her shop she has taken on Research and Development, Marketing, Product Management, and Customer Service ( an impressive way of saying she's pretty much a one-woman show).  Tom remains very supportive, dutifully hauling products and helping with packaging. They frequently travel to large international Quilt Markets and Expos to promote the Pieceful Patches® line of products.

About Lyn....

Lyn is the oldest sibling in a family of five brothers and sisters, all of whom are now married and out of the nest. She grew up and graduated from High School and went on to Secondary School for a medical career, working a number of jobs before settling in Central Wisconsin, where she met and married her husband Dave. She is very much like her mother (the apple doesn't fall far from the tree) in that she could not survive without being involved in a million projects. After her two kids were born she bought a long-arm quilting machine also, with the intention of slowly phasing out the medical job and being self-employed. Due to circumstances beyond her control she needed to keep the "real" job and downsize the quilting. By then Donna had hit on the Sew Easy Triangles idea, so Lyn became the Information Technology and Editing/Publishing part of the twosome. She writes the patterns, books, and maintains the website, as well as free-lance writing a monthly column for the Marshfield Piecemakers Quilt Guild Newsletter. She and Dave are still happily married and have two teens who need her to transport them to their various social events and dispense cash on an "as needed" basis. Between work, family, Pieceful Patches(R), 4-H, and quilt guild, her life is very full and she wouldn't change a thing.