Stern, Steffi: - Steffi Stern has been involved with handcrafting from an early age. After having a family, she opened a craft shop in Gloucestershire, UK, and became increasingly interested in needle felting, a means of sculpting with wool. She appears on Hochanda TV (UK) as their resident needle-felting expert and, with her business partner Sophie Buckley, operates The Makerss, an online needle-felting specialty shop.