Name: Jenny Bannock
Age: 34
Location: Connecticut
Profession: Adult Education Secretary, Knitting & Spinning teacher, & Yarn Small Business Owner
Craft(s) of choice: Spinning, knitting, crochet, sewing, embroidery
Blog: http://divinebird.com/wordpress
When I was 12, my mom sat me down at her sewing machine and declared that I was NOT going to grow up to be someone who couldn’t hem a pair [...]
Name: Kristin Jordan
Age: 36
Location: New York NY
Profession: Attorney
Craft(s) of choice: Knitting
Blog: http://kristinj.com
The mother of a childhood friend taught me to knit when I was 12. I picked it up again recently when I was trying to quit smoking cigarettes and now I am never without needles.
Name: Mary Lynn
Age: 54
Location: Ohio
Profession: Relocation Manager
Craft(s) of choice: Knitting, Crocheting, Sewing, Scrapbooking, Stamping
Blog: http://isnoacompletesentence.blogspot.com
For my 8th birthday, my Gramma decided that I should learn to knit. Being that she believed that making small stuff was a waste of time, the pattern and yarn she gave me was a cabled sweater in pink mohair.
The thing [...]
Name: Paula Bush
Age: 61
Location: Georgia
Profession: School Nurse
Craft(s) of choice: Painting, Knitting, Sewing
Blog: http://www.thevilulateagarden.blogspot.com
I have always painted, usually functional art, but one summer, about four years ago I learned to knit. I found a flyer touting knitting lessons at the Public Library in a tiny town in South Georgia. I signed up and learned to knit [...]
Name: Rebecca Brown Thompson
Age: 46
Location: Manila, Philippines
Profession: Foreign Service Officer
Craft(s) of choice: knitting
My late Mother taught me how to knit when I was around 6 years old. After she died, I really didn’t do it anymore, until I traveled to Denmark in my early 20’s where everybody knits! That was 25 years ago and [...]
Name: Virginia Villasenor
Age: 40
Location: San Pedro, CA
Profession: Rubber Stamp Company Owner
Craft(s) of choice: Cardmaking
Blog: http://instylestamps.com/blog
I love to craft. My favorite memory was working on invites with my little sister who is 6. She is turning into a little scrapbooker.
Name: Wen Redmond
Age: 59
Location: Strafford, NH
Profession: Contemporary Art in Fiber
Craft(s) of choice: Digital Fiber and Collage
Blog: http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com/
I am a mixed media/ fiber artist. I create the entire structure of my art pieces. My latest work contains digital printing. I digitally manipulate photographs in an artistic manner and print on prepared ink jet fabrics. These works [...]
Name: Rose Garrod
Age: 28
Location: Shandon, Ohio
Profession: Homemaker
Craft(s) of choice: knitting (I’m an addict), a little embroidery, and general kids crafts (I’m usually a “room-mom”)
When asked as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up I always said,”I want to be a wife and mother.” To me that’s the greatest [...]
Name: Meghan Stottlemyer
Age: 29 (yikes!)
Location: Akron, Ohio
Profession: Medical Assistant in a surgical office
Craft(s) of Choice: making trinket boxes, knitting
Blog: nutmeginc.blogspot.com
Ever since I can remember I have been crafting. My mom even called me “Meghan Craftmyer”, which I could not stand! I entered my first crafting fair when I was eight. I decided I wanted to [...]
Name: eve b. brown
Age: 65
Location: St. Paul, MN
Profession: greeting card artist
Craft(s) of Choice: cards, bookarts, collage, sewing, needlework
I believe my interest in paper all started as a toddler in Tampa, Florida. To keep me occupied, my parents would give me newspaper and magazines to [...]
