Cheryl Fall is the author of 12 books, including three in the popular Dummies series, and more than 2,000 articles on how-to crafts. She is currently the guide for About.com's Embroidery sites and she maintains her own Needleknowledge.com website. Cheryl has been designing professionally since 1986 and has been a designer for DMC Threads and J&P Coats/Anchor. She was the host of the nationally distributed PBS Plus series The Creative Life. She lives in the Portland, Oregon, area.