Name: Andrea Stern
Age: 45
Location: Chauncey OH USA
Profession: Artist
Craft(s) of Choice: Art quilting, beadwork, knitting, and plush
Blog: http://andibeads.blogspot.com
My Gran taught me to crochet when I was seven. I remember being so proud that I learned to make a basic chain. It was all I did for weeks. One day I took my crochet to show and [...]
Name: Claudia Dunitz
Age: 55
Location: Santa Fe, NM
Profession: Maker (of Natural Skin Care Products and Graphic Design)
Craft(s) of Choice: Knitting, Freeform Crochet, Art Quilting, Baking, Mosaics, Beading, Sewing, Embroidery, Surface Design, Painting, Printing, Fusing, Burning, Yikes – I can go on and on!
Blog: http://www.healmyhands.typepad.com
I don’t think there was a time when I didn’t make things with [...]
Name: Jennifer Morris
Age: 46
Location: Toronto
Profession: Craftsperson, Designer- Maker Day job Salesperson
Craft’s of Choice: Beading, Bead weaving, Embroidery, Wirework, Crochet, Knitting, Collage
Blog: http://embellishment.ca
How craft saved my life or a least made the process of illness and recovery better. I have a genetic disorder so I was in and out of hospitals as a kid with many [...]
Name: Kay Lynn Odle-Moore
Age: 52
Location: Tok, Alaska (about 90 miles from the Yukon Territory, Canada; Interior Alaska with ranges in temperature from 80’s in the summer to -70 degrees F. in the winter – closest large city with supplies – Fairbanks, AK – 210 miles away)
Profession: Interpretive Park Ranger for Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge – [...]
Name: Leslie Petrovski
Age: 48
Location: Denver, Colorado
Profession: Freelance writer
Crafts of choice: Knitting, crochet, beading, spinning and soapmaking
Five years ago, I decided I wanted to combine my profession—writing—with my hobby—knitting. At the time I felt stuck in my writing life, while my knitting flourished. Why not combine the two?
It took a bit of persistence, but I finally [...]
Name: Linda Koch
Age: 52
Location: Wellington Ohio
Profession : I am an aide to special needs children in a local school district.
Craft(s) of Choice: spinning, knitting, mixed media art, bead work
Blog: http://alteredvisions.typepad.com/altered_visions/
I remember as a child I always loved to do some sort of handiwork and learned to do any and all from my mom as we [...]
Name: Lori Anderson
Age: 39
Location: Easton, MD
Profession: Jewelry Designer and Mommy
Craft(s) of Choice: beading
Blog: www.lorianderson.blogspot.com
I never, ever, ever thought of myself as creative. None of my “real” jobs had the slightest thing to do with creativity – Air Force linguist, IT sales rep, pre-med student. I’d never been encouraged to be creative, pushed more [...]
Name: Lorna Collins
Age: 37
Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Profession: I did work in the shipping department of a factory, but since a bad car accident, I’ve been off on disability. Probably won’t go back to that job.
Craft(s) of Choice: Many. Knitting, rubberstamping, photography, cardmaking & scrapbooking, some needlework, latch hook, plastic canvas, beading, polymer clay, painting, [...]
Name: Patricia Huntoon
Age: 48
Location: Stamford CT
Profession: Website Owner, Technique Junkie Newsletter Publisher
Craft(s) of Choice: Stamping, Scrapbooking, Beading
Blog: http://patstamps.blogspot.com
In October 2002, I started a publication called the Technique Junkie Newsletter that teaches rubber stamping techniques using step-by-step, picture tutorials. Although they are easy to find on the internet now, I have published for 7 years, and [...]
Name: Rachel Rose
Age: 48
Location: Olathe, Ks.
Profession: Artist, Instructor
Craft(s) of Choice: Watercolors, Pastels, Beadweaving,Meltal workwire wrapping
I decided to be an artist when I was 7 years old. My parents took us(siblings) to see our cousin Phylis. She lived in Hollywood CA. I remember her being tall and beautiful, her boyfriend Jack [...]
