Artistic design is a hallmark of Brian Haggard’s life. Brian’s canvas is both large and small—on any given day he may be helping an interior design client build a home or stitching pincushions with friends. Brian’s passion for creative expression began early. He began making and stitching quilts at his grandmother’s knee, graduated from floral design school at thirteen, secured his first paid interior design job at fifteen, and started teaching silk-ribbon embroidery at sixteen (for the same quilt shop that hosts his book launch parties now). Professionally, Brian has over twenty years of award-winning floral design under his belt and owns a thriving interior design business, where he works on projects as simple as picking paint colors and as complex as managing multi-million-dollar building projects. Brian actively shares his love of the needle arts. This is Brian’s fourth publication with C&T and it builds on the success of Crazy-Quilted Memories, Embroidered Memories, and Blended Embroidery. Additionally, he authored The Crazy Haberdasher’s Inspiring Life with Quiltmania which was launched at Pour l’Amour du Fil in Nantes, France. Highlights of Brian’s teaching and speaking engagements include Elly Sienkiewicz’s Appliqué Academy and The Road to California. Thousands of students have enjoyed Brian’s thoughtful instruction and fun-filled classes at quilting guilds and shops across the United States, Canada, Ireland, and France. In 2017, the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, honored Brian with a gallery display of his work. Brian lives in Indianapolis with his husband, Kevin, in The Crazy Haberdasher’s Studio. Work and home converge in The Studio, where Brian’s broad body of work is intermingled with antique treasures to showcase his design aesthetic and style. Friends, family, and students love to spend time in the inspiring environment and are always surprised to see what has changed since the last visit. He loves to travel in search of materials and ideas for the next project. Whether on his way to the Paris Fleas, Venice’s open-air markets, or on the byways of America in search of antique treasures, it’s a sure bet that he has a needle in his hand and a project on his lap. Visit Brian online at brianhaggard.com.