Our Ambassadors
Our talented Brand Ambassadors will inspire you with tips and techniques that will take your sewing to a whole new level! Learn new ways to use your PFAFF® machine and accessories so your projects will reflect all the latest trends in fashion, home decor and quilting.
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Nerrisa is content creator and small business owner with a passion for craft and DIY. When she’s not running her PR agency Untld Project or stitching up a storm over at The Bargello Edit, Nerrisa is hidden away in her sewing machine creating catwalk inspired clothing and even shoes using her PFAFF machines.
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Portia Lawrie is a predominantly self-taught dressmaker and designer with a particular focus on reusing unwanted textiles. She has been writing about sewing since 2010, on her social media and her website: www.portialawrie.co.uk
Portia is the founder/creator of The Refashioners, an annual sewing event that launched in 2011 and ran until 2019. Its aim was to challenge the global sewing community to look at old clothes in a new light, and provide inspiration and tutorials (and often a huge competition prize) to encourage participation and get this message across.
Portia has been a contributor to Simply Sewing magazine since its launch in 2015, designing and writing reader tutorials for a mix of refashioning, pattern hacks and patternless projects. She was awarded Dressmaker magazine’s Dressmaker of the Year in 2017. Winning with a quilted denim coat made from unwanted jeans.
She lives in rural Essex, UK, with her partner and teenage son, working from a cabin at the bottom of the garden.
Portia's first book The Re:Fashion Wardrobe will publish in March 2023 with Searchpress.
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Sally founded Dresscue at the Brighton based Arts Charity ONCA - Dresscue is a free, community sewing space where people can learn to make, mend and upcycle. It is a space open to all abilities to grow in skills, interests and confidence while encouraging community connections and improved wellbeing. Sally is really grateful to PFAFF for their ongoing support and the donation of machines, without which the project would not be possible.
Learn more here https://onca.org.uk/
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Andrew is a professional hairdresser and tap dance teacher. A self-taught sewist, since 2014 he has been creating his own wardrobe and accessories ever since. His passion lies in sharing the knowledge he has learnt - you can find him online @sewandrew (IG/YouTube) and sewandrew.com . Andrew is thrilled to be a part of the Pfaff family and is really enjoying getting to grips with machine embroidery
PFAFF Heritage
With a celebrated history of superior design and engineering, PFAFF® sewing machines are the world’s premier precision machines that sewists aspire to own. The PFAFF brand has 160 years of sewing heritage that creates a climate for continued development and design of high-quality sewing and embroidery machines.
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