Slipcover America, Inc. has 3 main objectives:

1) To educate the public about ways to increase the life span of their furniture. Don’t throw it away but to recycle, and/or reuse via slipcovering, refurbishing and reupholstering. This objective is being meet, through workshops (teaching others how to make their own slipcovers), seminars (workshops how to rework their furniture) and related articles at www.slipcoveramerica.com

2) To maintain, and facilitate the Slipcover Network, an Internet website at http://www.slipcover
network.com that offers a “directory of slipcover professionals” to the consumer; acts as a support system to those in the slipcover industry, and many other facets having to do with slipcovers. Karen is also the Managing editor of the Slipcover Press a quarterly publication of the Slipcover Network.

3)Design and fabricate slipcovers from natural organic fabric for her customers “ONSITE” in their homes throughout the country with a unique time saving techniques. Offers solutions to those customers suffering with allergies.

 

Karen works with designers, decorators and retail customers throughout the United States, specializing in ON-Site fabrication ( in customer’s homes) Karen continues to instruct both in the US and Canada doing Seminars/Demonstrations of Slipcovering at fabric stores, for sewing guilds, at professional workrooms, and for ASID groups. 4 years she was on staff at the Custom Home Furnishings Industry in North Carolina.

In January of 2006 she launched Sonoran Sewing Experience (specializing in sewing workshops for the home” with Claudia Buchanan at www.sonoransewingexperience.com. Photos and articles regarding slipcovers have been published in written magazine as well as in online publications

Karen is a single parent of two grown sons, one a Music graduate from Florida State University, and the other a Senior at Lewis & Clark College Oregon an Environmental Biology Major.

 

Published:
“Sewing and Embroidery Magazine” March 2005
“Mary Englebreit Home Companion Magazine”, Dec/Jan 2001
“Meet Me in St Louis” Channel 5 April 2001
“St Louis South County Journal” February 2000
“St Louis Home and Garden Magazine” October 1999
“Better Homes and Garden Special Issue” Summer 1999
“Mary Englebreit Home Companion Magazine”, January 1999

 

Articles published:
“Dreams Alive” online publication June 2005-05-28 “Slipcover Press” Editor 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
“SewWhat? Newsletter” (monthly contributing writer)
September, 1999, March, April, June, July, Oct, Nov. 2000
Jan- Dec. 2001, Jan, Feb, April, May, June, Oct, Nov. 2002, Jan-July 2003
“Homespun Newsletter” Feb., April, October 2000, Feb., April 2001, Feb. 2002, Jan 2004, Feb 2005
“Window Fashions Magazine” April 2000

 

Recently Taught Workshops:
Vogue Fabrics Evanston, Illinois April 2006
IWC Expo Tampa, Florida March 2006
Creative & Sewing Festival Abbottsford Canada March 2006
Sonoran Sewing Experience Phoenix, AZ March 2006
ETADALLAS Denton, TX Feb 2006
Original Sewing & Quilt Show Bloomington, MN Nov 2005
Original Sewing & Quilt Show Overland, KS Oct 2005 Original Sewing & Quilt Show Chantilly, VA Oct 2005
Round Bobbin Show St Charles, Mo Sept. 2005
American Sewing Guild Conference Nashville, Tn July 2005
A Common Thread Portland, OR May 2005
Sun Festival Scottsdale, AZ May 2005
Original Sewing & Quilt Show Boston, MA April 2005
Original Sewing & Quilt Show Cleveland, Oh March 2005
Original Sewing & Quilt Show Atlanta, GA March 2005
Mid South Sewing Center Murfreesboro, TN February 2005
Creative Sewing Expo VI Wadena, MN February 2005
Creative Sewing and Craft Festival Toronto, Canada October 2004
Sewing & Quilt Show Chicago, Illinois October 2004
American Sewing Expo Novi, Michigan September 2004 Vogue Fabrics Evanston, Illinois September 2004 Workroom Enterprises Santa Cruz, California July 2004 Slipcover Summit 2004 Fort Collins, Colorado June 2004
Clover Park Tech College Tacoma, Washington May 2004

Videos Published:
So You Want to Make a Slipcover (VHS 59min) January 2001
Slipcovers for Cushions (VHS 30min) April 2003
Tips for Wing Chair Slipcovers (VHS 30min) April 2003

 

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