Robin not only loves to sew, but she loves to help other people in their sewing adventures. She especially loves helping customer pick out new sewing machines to match their needs.

Robin enjoys sewing early in the morning before work, and she has made a lot of the quilt samples in the store. She also likes to work on the website and designs quilt patterns and the $5 Quilt Club patterns every month.

She's a good troubleshooter when a machine is having "issues," and as the serger instructor, she's quite familiar with overlock machines, too.

In her spare time, she loves to camp in one of her vintage Shasta trailers with her husband and grandson. She also likes to hang out on her family's farm, where she forages for wild foods.

Chip is our head Sewing Machine Service Technician. He has sixteen years of experience and lots of training. He can really make a sewing machine purr!

Chip is also the guy who keeps the business going by paying all the bills.

When he's not working, you can find him hiking (one summer he completed hiking the entire  Swannanoa Valley Rim), working out or running, cooking a gourmet meal, tailgating at an Appalachian State University football game, or watching a NASCAR race.

Although Karen has a degree in physics, she lived in the textile dept at NC State. Her love for fiber/fabrics began at a young age at the knee of her grandmother. Karen loves creating and making the fabric do what she wants it to do. As a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, Karen's designs have appeared in a series of books by Lark Publishing as well as a commissioned piece for the White House.

Karen works two days a week and teaches the Machine Mastery classes. She's a wealth of information about sewing, and is a genius when it comes to helping customers buy a machine.

When she's not helping customers pick out fabulous quilts, she is sewing, dreaming about a trip to somewhere exotic or hanging out with one of her four kids.

You can call her Alice, you can call her Drue. We call her Drue. Either way, she's very helpful when you want to pick out a quilt, and won't stop looking for the perfect fabric until it's... perfect! We often joke about her being the Purple Queen because she loves the color purple.

Drue's also a good machine troubleshooter, and she has mastered "quilt math," so she's a good one to ask when you're unsure of yardage amounts.

When she's not working, Drue is a mom to an awesome six-year-old, and Chip and Robin's daughter. She absolutely loves animals, and has three horses (Shadow, Vanity, and Secret), four cats (Janelle, Storm, Luna, and Mittens), and two dogs (Nancy and Dixie). She also has volunteered for multiple Animal Rescues between McDowell and Buncombe county.

Sydney has already has learned enough to make many shop samples from only starting to work and sew with us a few short years ago.

Sydney is also a wiz at "quilt math," so she can calculate yardages for customers. She's great with color, and she's a good machine troubleshooter as well. She is also good with sergers, and she loves pairing up customers with the perfect sewing machine or serger.

Ginny started out by teaching the Machine Mastery classes at ACC way back in the beginning, 21 years ago. Ginny is now once again working with us on Saturdays. She is a wealth of information on sewing machines and accessories.

Jo is a part time worker and teacher here at Asheville Cotton Co. Her classes are wonderful and she is really helpful in figuring out patterns and designs just by describing them (and drawing a picture).

In her spare time she fosters animals from Brother Wolf here in Asheville.

Katie is our newest helper. She is learning how to sew and eager to learn how to make clothing. She's really good at getting the fabric back where it belongs after its cut, and she likes to help pick out projects for customers.

If you need advice for costume ideas, Katie's your girl.