Meet our 2025 Elected Leadership
Debby Bowles
President
Plano ASG has been my gift to myself since 2007. About everything I know about sewing I have acquired through the many classes, neighborhood group meetings, and sewing friendships. I am honored to finally have the time to serve in a leadership position for our chapter.
Before developing my interest in sewing, I was a public school teacher. I loved teaching about as much as I love sewing. Leading the Designing Divas neighborhood group has been my “teaching fix.” When not sewing, I enjoy time with my family (husband, elderly mother, adult children, and grandchildren).
Sharon Carter-Merlo
Vice President
Sharon Carter-Merlo has been a Plano ASG member since 2014. She has been the retreat coordinator since 2015. Sharon learned to sew from her mother at an early age and by the time she attended high school she sewed all of her own clothes with the help of her mom and home economics teacher. Sewing was put on hold when she went to college and pursued her career in commercial finance. Sharon returned to her creative roots in 2010 when she purchased her first computerized sewing machine. She enjoys machine embroidery, quilting, garment construction and taking seminars and workshops to improve her skills. She also enjoys spending time in her sewing studio creating and making things for family and friends as well as attending sewing and quilting expos and taking classes when the opportunity arises.
Tiffany Standridge
Treasurer
Cathey Jordan
Secretary
I have been sewing since I was 8 years old. My mother taught me how to sew, my aunt taught me how to knit and my grandmother taught me how to crochet. I am happiest when I am creating. For the last several years, I have been the group leader for We’re Sew Special, the Mesquite group that meets the first Tuesday of the month. I am looking forward to working with the Board in this new opportunity.
Meet our 2025 Chapter Advisory Board Members
Mary Jo Forbes, Donna Outhouse, Davie Marie Hurlbert
Special Events Committee
Maggie Tinnin
Retail Liaison
Neighborhood Group Leader for all of the quilting and Electric Quilt neighborhood groups.