Bolsover, Jane: - Jane Bolsover has over 20 years' experience as a designer and writer specialising in sewing and crafts. She was sewing editor on Essentials magazine, contributes to magazines, has written several books on soft furnishings, and now works as a consultant for a major textile and craft show company, for whom she organises craft demonstrations, workshops and displays. She is the author of Sewing Machine Basics (published by CICO Books) and holds workshops through Rowan at Liberty of London and John Lewis stores. The author is based in Dorking, Surrey.