Yuko Katayama & Kyoko Sakauchi & Michiyo Ito YukoKatayama Yuko started sewing at the age of six, and after graduating from Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo, she joined a publishing company. Worked for 15 years as an editor of craft books specializing in sewing. Currently, she resumes freelance editing. Every day she tries to improve herself on new things and also she uses the skills and knowledge that she has cultivated over more than 30 years of sewing in different areas such as customizing and repairing clothes and accessories. Kyoko Sakauchi After graduating from a design college, she worked for an apparel maker as a planning department patterner for seven and a half years. Retired in 1997, then as a freelance patterner and sample maker, she produced wholesale clothes and casual wear. She joined to several workshops and learned how to make shoes from Katsumi Shigeru. She works on sewing pattern designs, production of paper patterns, development and sales of handicraft kits and publications in Europe and Asia and also teaches sewing class.