My Bio

Cheryl is a designer of handbags, clothing, and home accessories. Her custom designs combine charm with a modern eclectic-vintage cool twist, using a mix of fabrics and trims to create designs with color and texture. After a twenty‐one year career at upscale retailer, Nordstrom, she launched her custom design business, Paradiso Designs by Cheryl Kuczek. In fall 2006, Cheryl launched her own independent pattern line with four handbag patterns, and using sewing techniques that she developed to sew pleather for handbag straps. Since then she has published many more patterns, including cool, edgy clothing that works for ALL sizes and other designer-like handbags, AND has her own line of pleather kits to make handbag straps for her bag patterns and for other bag patterns as well. Six years ago Cheryl began teaching adults and children not only how to sew, but how to incorporate their own styles into custom creations....

Cheryl is a designer of handbags, clothing, and home accessories. Her custom designs combine charm with a modern eclectic-vintage cool twist, using a mix of fabrics and trims to create designs with color and texture. After a twenty‐one year career at upscale retailer, Nordstrom, she launched her custom design business, Paradiso Designs by Cheryl Kuczek. In fall 2006, Cheryl launched her own independent pattern line with four handbag patterns, and using sewing techniques that she developed to sew pleather for handbag straps. Since then she has published many more patterns, including cool, edgy clothing that works for ALL sizes and other designer-like handbags, AND has her own line of pleather kits to make handbag straps for her bag patterns and for other bag patterns as well. Six years ago Cheryl began teaching adults and children not only how to sew, but how to incorporate their own styles into custom creations. With her own children’s sewing program, Cheryl loves helping her students learn to sew beyond what they believed they could. Using her patterns and free form design, she helps them create their own looks. They also learn to draft their own patterns to make clothing and to craft all kinds of stuffy creatures. Cheryl guides all of her students to complete their own projects—and, even more important—to really understand design and the evolving creative process. She finds tremendous joy in the ability to inspire others a reason to sew and create as well. It is Cheryl’s passion. Beyond expanding her funky-boho pattern line, Cheryl’s goal is to design a line of fabric and is working on a designer hand bag book outline. Visit Cheryl’s blog at www.paradisodesigns.blogspot.com today, to get inspired. Find all of Cheryl's patterns on her website at www.paradisodesigns.com.