Sarah Veblen is a custom fashion designer with a home-based business that focuses on creating clothing for her clientele, and that concentrates on teaching and writing to promote the craft of garment-making. She has a Certificate in Fashion Design from Baltimore City Community College and a BA from Stanford University.

Dedicated to promoting sewing at all levels, Sarah teaches in her studio and other classroom venues, as well as online through PatternReview.com. She has been a guest lecturer and held workshops for many sewing groups and organizations across the country.

For more than twenty-five years, Sarah has been designing and making clothing for her private clientele, specializing in fit, innovative pattern design, and quality construction. Her focus is street-wear and soft tailoring, with an emphasis on helping women create a wardrobe that is compatible with their lifestyle. The right fabric for a particular garment or ensemble along with attention to detail and an excellent fit are the essential components to achieving sophisticated, distinctive, and comfortable clothing. In addition to woven yard goods, Sarah designs and works in knit fabrics. She also creates original design special occasion gowns on a limited basis.

Drawing on her years of experience fitting clients and students, Sarah has written a comprehensive and beautifully photographed and illustrated book on fitting. The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting gives detailed information on custom fitting garment patterns. And it provides easy-to-understand explanations of patternmaking principles and skills to make the resulting pattern changes logical and straightforward.

Sarah has been a consultant to several small label women's clothing companies, assisting with the conceptualization of designs, pattern development, and technical aspects of construction. She has also been a patternmaking consultant for Fit For Art Patterns, with whom she also collaborated to develop the Eureka! Pants that Fit pattern, which is based on the fitting research she conducted while writing her book.

As one of the regular teachers for PatternReview.com, Sarah contributed "Secrets for Sewing Knits" in PatternReview.com's 1,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts & Tips. A frequent contributor to THREADS Magazine, Sarah has over twenty articles and short features as well as three how-to videos. She was invited to participate as one of the three designers in the 1999 THREADS Design Challenge. She appeared as a THREADS guest in the 2001/2002 season of HGTV's sewing program, "Sew Much More," with a show on making a wool gauze skirt. And she was the overall winner of the 2008 THREADS/ASDP "Fluid Fabrics" challenge.

A founding member of the Baltimore Chapter of the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals (ASDP), Sarah has served on ASDP's National Executive Committee and on the Baltimore Chapter's Executive Board, as well as volunteering for her professional organization in many capacities. She is also a member of Fashion Group International (FGI) and the American Sewing Guild (ASG).

For a more personal look at how Sarah came to sewing, developing her business, teaching, and writing, you can read part one and part two of an interview with Chicago ASG's Wendy Grossman.