Instructors

Owner/Founder

Embroidery & Software Instructor

Wanda grew up in northern Lancaster County. She occupied her younger years with hand embroidery and related crafts. She learned how to sew clothing from her grandmother, a skill which then occupied her summer free time.

Sewing took a back seat to her career until her mother needed quilt tops to hand quilt for charity fundraisers. Numerous quilt tops led to a new sewing machine, her first BERNINA. In 2014, Wanda expanded her interests to include machine embroidery. Now she enjoys sewing and embroidering items for family, especially her grandchildren. Being three at Christmas means you receive a handmade backpack, which they enjoy.

Wanda enjoyed and benefitted from classes she's taken since becoming part of the BERNINA family, and while teaching Embroidery Club, she recognized a need for additional class offerings. She gets joy from sharing her interest and knowledge to help others create. She believes that everyone has something to learn and share through the journey, which makes each class truly rewarding.

Serger Instructor

Donna loves to sew and embroider small projects.  She has sewn the project samples and led the Embroidery Club at The Old Country Store, as well as taught other classes for Hinkletown Sewing for the past 15 years.

Donna likes to spend time sewing charity projects with friends. They have made walker bags for local retirement homes, pillows for breast cancer patients, pillowcase dresses to send to orphanages in other countries, and many other worthy projects.

After 42 years in their first home, Donna and her husband, John, recently designed, built, and moved into a new home just outside of New Holland, PA. “It was quite a project,” Donna says, “but the large, bright sewing room with a great view of the countryside was worth it!”

Donna and John enjoy travelling (especially to the Bernina factories in Switzerland and Thailand) and watching their great-nephews race stock cars.