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Meet The Team
Liz Holpin
Business Owner
Engineer and Installer
Liz has been selling, training and providing technical support on Handi Quilter machines since 2010. She specialises in Pro-Stitcher where her previous experience as an IBM Systems Engineer has proved useful. She is a qualified HQ Technician and services and installs the range of Handi Quilter machines.
Pauine Jamieson
Customer Service
I am a retired teacher who after 40 years of working and living in London, moved to Worcestershire. I was astounded to find that we had moved to a tiny village only 10 minutes from the Pinhole Quilting showroom. . . . It was meant to be!
I first met Liz and Pete when I bought my Amara in 2018 and just 3 years later I was working for them, helping out with the online orders, processing stock, cutting fabric and loading the frames ready for the growing number of workshops.
When not at Pinhole, I can be found in my sewing room or quilting room. My husband thinks I’m obsessive . . . he could be right! I have always been fascinated with sewing, even getting the needle of my mother’s old treadle singer machine through my finger at the age of five!
I consider myself enormously lucky to be living in this part of the world as I’m only a stone’s throwfrom the NEC in Birmingham and the Three Counties Show Ground in Malvern where two of thebest quilting shows are held.
I am a member of The Comberton Quilters who meet monthly at my house to make beautiful quilts to raise money for charity. I’m enormously proud of this group who have been winners at FOQ, Malvern and more recently at the Glasgow show.
Katie Boath
Customer Service
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Cherry McDaniel and Simon Hodgson
Service Engineers and Installers
'Hello I'm Cherry, my partner Simon and I joined the Pinhole team back in late July 2025. I was taught how to quilt in 2018 after many years of sewing and taking commissions for free-motion embroidery work. In late 2020 I met Liz & Pete when I decided to set up my own quilting business at home and bought a Handiquilter Infinity to do so. I've quilted hundreds of quilts since I learnt how to. Now Simon and I install Handiquilter machines for other quilters.
Outside of sewing and quilting, I love books and reading. I am a prolific audiobook listener which means I can sew and read at the same time, woo!
I love film, TV, and theatre. I love a gritty TV series (Severance), comedy (Taskmaster), or a captivating documentary. My family and I try to go to the theatre often, and I'm a partial to a musical, especially if they're funny or dark (more Rocky Horror and Six, less Hairspray and Grease). My favourite film is The Lion King, but don't let my love of Disney movies, musicals and pretty quilts fool you, I absolutely love a horror movie!
Simon and I live with my daughter Mel and our four naughty cats Nala, Peach, Daisy and Jiji.'
Pete Holpin
Business Owner
Engineer and Installer
Pete has been installing, servicing and testing Handi Quilter machines since 2017. He performs most of the machine checks prior to installation and is responsible for the majority of repairs. He has a strong background in engineering and physics.
Mark Walker
Operations Manager
For the majority of my working career I have held management roles. Starting on the bottom rung in an office based customer facing service support role for an IT company, progressing over twelve years to manage their UK field service engineering team. After a brief spell working for a logistics company, I joined an IT asset disposal company as Warehouse and Logistics Manager where I worked for twenty years.
During this time I met Pete and Liz on a cricket field on a sunny day in Flyford Flavell not too far from Pinhole Quilting's showroom. Little did I know that years later I would be working with them. After a brief discussion with Pete at a cricket social event in 2022 I decided to take up a new challenge with Pinhole Quilting which I am still enjoying to this day.
I am quite a sporty person and have played a decent level of football and cricket and also represented Worcestershire at cross country running at junior level. I just stick to football and cricket these days!
If I'm not on a sports field it's likely you'll find me either in the crowd at a music gig or holidaying somewhere abroad!
One quirky fact about myself is that although I am right handed, I eat left handed!
Derek Weir
Senior engineer and Installer
Derek has a degree in engineering and has extensive experience working on technical projects. His wife has an Avante and and Amara with Pro-Stitcher. Over the years he has developed an impressive quilting knowledge since he trained as a Handi Quilter engineer in 2017. He covers Northern Ireland, Ireland, Scotland and Northern England.
Michelle Pullen
Service Engineer
Michelle retired from her Industrial Engineering career and took up quilting as a hobby and a way of making new friends in her retirement.
After purchasing a longarm from Pinhole Quilting she was coaxed out of retirement to hone her engineering skills as a Service Technician at Pinhole.
Michelle also carries out machine checks prior to installation and assists with technical solutions in Customer Support.
She still gets time to enjoy using her longam and quilts a lot for Charity.
Tony Hewitt
Service Engineer and Installer
A Chartered Engineer living near Glasgow, Tony’s involvement with Handi Quilter stemmed directly from helping his wife Anne with her Amara and Pro-Stitcher. Following one intervention, Anne suggested contacting Liz and Pete Holpin at Pinhole Quilting regarding any support they needed for installations and servicing in Scotland and Northern England, once retired.
Tony retired in late 2025, is now a Certified HQ Technician and Installer for all the HQ machines including Pro-Stitcher. He covers Scotland and North of England.