Instructor Name:

Ryliss Bod

Instructor Bio:

Ryliss Bod is the Founder and Director of the Sewing & Design School and has extensive experience teaching Fashion Construction and Design at Bates Technical College. At Bates, she instructed courses for both continuing education and career training in all levels of sewing construction, interior home fashions, fashion accessory construction, fashion design, fitting & pattern alterations, pattern-making, textiles, history of fashion and quilting.

She received her teaching degree in K-12 grades and studied art, clothing and textiles at Central Washington University, pattern-making and CAD at Gerber Technology, fashion design at the Paris Fashion Institute, pattern-making and construction techniques with Kenneth D. King and countless others.

Throughout her career she developed workshops and fashion shows, hired instructors and conducted fashion and fabric shopping field trips to Portland, San Francisco and New York. Ryliss has been a Contributing Editor at Sew News Magazine, Threads Magazine, judge for the 2014 RAGS Benefit, Make it With Wool Contest and the Washington State 4-H Dress Revue and is the host of Instagram's annual Sew Photo Challenge #sewApril2017 - #sewApril2024. She is currently Washington state's Co-Director of the Make it with Wool Contest.
She may be contacted at ryliss@comcast.net.