Hey, there! Due to tech a minor technical difficulty (or more than likely, a pregnancy brain snafu in scheduling on my part), a future issue of Craft Corps Weekly went out today instead of later in June. Soooo, we’re going with it. We’ll go back to our regularly scheduled Tuesday delivery of CCW on June [...]
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Name: Andrea Lyn Van Benschoten Age: 38 Location: Rockaway, NJ Profession: Seach Engine Optimization Analyst Craft(s) of Choice: Crochet, Yarn Spinning, Needle Felting, Wet Felting Blog: http://thefiberforum.com Since I was a child, I always wanted to learn to crochet. My grandmother tried to teach me, but like most children, I didn’t have the required attention [...]
Category: Crochet, Felting, Spinning |
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Tags: Crochet, Needle Felting, Wet Felting, Yarn Spinning
Name: Christy Zuccarini Age: 30 Location: Baltimore, MD Profession: Non-profit fundraiser Craft(s) of Choice: Jewelry Blog: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/crafts/ When I was around 12 years old, my parents came home one sunny afternoon from the local flea market with a jar of beads and findings that they had purchased from a retired jeweler. This jar was quite [...]
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Name: Curln Reed Sullivan Age: Location: austin Profession: artist/writer Craft(s) of Choice: botanical character studies, illustration, cermaics, collage, embroidery Blog: http://www.curlinreedsullivan.com/blog one day, while photographing my new flowergal embroidery kit, my son brought a praying mantis into my studio to serve as model and spokesbug for my art. (see picture!)
Category: Ceramics, Drawing/Sketching, Embroidery/Crossstitch, Mixed Media |
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Tags: botanical character studies, cermaics, collage, Embroidery/Crossstitch, illustration
Name: Dawn Buettner Huntington Age: 35 Location: Vista, San Diego, Southern California Profession: 75% Mommy, 15% Crafter, 10% Archictural Drafting Craft(s) of Choice: Silkscreen, Sewing, Sketching, Painting, Woodwork Blog: http://www.OUToftheBOXcalifornia.blogspot.com In grade school, perfect penmanship always invoked people to proclaim, “You should be an Architect!” So, I suppose it’s only natural I would pursue a [...]
Category: Drawing/Sketching, Painting, Sewing, Woodworking |
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Name: Eydie Liebelt Age: 57 Location: Fond du Lac Wisconsin USA Profession: Free Lance Artist/Crafter Craft(s) of Choice: Mixed Media Collage, Embroidery, Watercolor, Calligraphy, Crochet, Sewing Blog: http://shebrews.com Someone said that whatever you were doing for fun between the ages of 11-15 would probably make a good life employment for you. I remember doing a [...]
Category: Crochet, Embroidery/Crossstitch, Mixed Media, Painting, Sewing |
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Tags: Calligraphy, Crochet, Embroidery/Crossstitch, mixed media collage, Sewing, Watercolor
Name: Janice Age: 50 Location: Casa Grande, Arizona Profession: Dental Hygienist Craft(s) of Choice: knitting, crocheting, sewing, faux painting, etc. I LOVE to craft! If I see something I like, I have to make it, sometimes it lands in the trash, sometimes it is a decorative item until something new replaces it, but LOVE crafting. [...]
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Name: Laura LeMaster Age: 52 Location: Vista, CA Profession: Artist/Teacher Craft(s) of Choice: Drawing, silk painting, mixed media assemblages I clearly remember my mother asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up.ll(I was just 5) “An Artist!” I became an artist the moment I picked up my first crayon & have been [...]
Category: Drawing/Sketching, Mixed Media |
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Name: Terri Yonemura Age: 46 Location: Carlsbad, CA Profession: Artist, teacher Craft(s) of Choice: recycled fiber and paper arts, crochet, sewing, quilting Blog: http://yonoscreations.blogspot.com I love taking household items and altering them into useful pieces of art. I am enamored to the Asian culture and blend my Oklahoma roots with ever present Japanese influences for [...]
Category: Crochet, Paper Arts, Quilting, Sewing |
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Name: Jacqueline Myers-Cho Age: ageless Location: Los Angeles CA Profession: I am the author of STRANDS: Creating Unexpected Fabrics and Fashionable Projects, mixed media artist and teacher (am working on my second book) Craft(s) of Choice: I am a mixed media artist so I really like to mix it up. I love to play with [...]
Category: Mixed Media |
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