State Directors

Meet Karen Katin, owner since February 2017 of The Stitchery in Portsmouth, RI, where she teaches sewing classes to children and adults. She's a certified Rhode Island educator with a graduate degree in Curriculum and Instruction and over 40 years of sewing experience. You can find her designing class sewing projects, mentoring the high school costume club, hosting the annual craft supply swap, teaching sewing classes through libraries around the state, hosting a military spouse fiber art group, and finding ways to bring the community together through needle and thread.