Belle is a quilt pattern designer and fabric designer with Benartex. She focuses on confident beginner patterns and techniques that even advanced quilters love to make and believes that all people, of any age, can learn to quilt. Her patterns and popular Jumbo Alphabet Clips are sold by major distributors and she has been published in Font’s and Porter’s Quick & Easy Quilts and the Quilt Folk Arkansas Edition #34.

Belle is a brand ambassador Arrow Sewing, Oliso, Havels Sewing, and is a 2025-2026 Aurifil Artisan. She has been an instructor at the American Quilters Society Quilt Week, The Original Sewing & Quilting Expo, International Quilt Festival and local quilt guilds.

She has a quilting retreat center in the Arkansas Ouachita National Forest where she hosts small quilting retreats. Belle has a fun YouTube Channel called Thread Life with Belle where she has created community and fun!

Having spent years helping non-profits and boards of directors in her other business, Belle expanded her Seams Sew Me business to also specialize in providing leadership, governance, consulting and education for quilt guilds’ boards of directors. She believes that strong inclusive guilds contribute to strong communities. She leads and teaches with her two leading values: of compassion and understanding.