Sosae Caetano

About the Author

Sosae and Dennis Caetano are a wife and husband design team based in California, specializing in all things cute. For more than eight years, they’ve been designing for Trellis & Thyme, their popular needlecraft and quilt pattern company. Their kawaii cross-stitch designs appear regularly in the UK’s World of Cross Stitching magazine, and they have over 100 published cross stitch and felt-embroidery patterns in Cross Stitch Crazy and Mollie Makes magazines. They are the authors of Kawaii Craft Life, the Kawaii Cross-Stitch Kit, Cute Kawaii Cross Stitch, Pusheen: A Christmas Cross-Stitch Kit, Gudetama Cross-Stitch, and Cottagecore Cross-Stitch Kit.

Dick Bruna was an award-winning graphic designer, artist, and illustrator who created Miffy in 1955. He published more than 120 children’s picture books during his lifetime and was awarded the Max Velthuijs Prize in 2016, a lifetime achievement award for Dutch children’s book illustrators. He passed away in 2017.