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Pinhole Quilting Staff
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
Coming Soon
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
Coming Soon
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.