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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 tear in my playpen. Apparently, I [...]
