Name: Beverly Army Williams
Age: 39
Location: Granby, CT
Profession: College freshman composition professor and fiction writer
Craft(s) of Choice: Knitting, spinning, weaving, embroidery, crochet
Blog: http://www.wbnm.typepad.com
My Gram was an avid stitcher. She and her four sisters loved to crochet, although only one of them could read a pattern. Aunt Franny would find an afghan or layette [...]
Name: Christine Blystone
Age: 26
Location: Portland, Oregon
Profession: Web Editor at an Alt. Weekly Newspaper
Craft(s) of Choice: Sewing & Embroidery
Blog: http://flappergirlcreations.wordpress.com
My first memory of sewing is from when I was around eight years old. My best friend and I were really into troll dolls, and we decided we were going to make wardrobes for all our trolls. [...]
Name: Christine Hmiel
Age: 24
Location: Albany, NY
Profession: I just finished my Masters degree and now work at a nonprofit organization.
Craft(s) of Choice: Sewing, crochet, embroidery, block print… anything new I can learn! Oh and baking too!
Blog: Unspeakable Visions
Growing up, my mom encouraged creativity at every turn– craft-themed birthday parties, homemade jewelry, DIY projects around [...]
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: Claudia Remijio
Age: 33
Location: Santa Ana CA
Profession: Work in the women’s shoe industry
Craft(s) of Choice: Embroidery, some half assed knitting, learning to sew correctly, dying to learn how to crochet so i can do amuriguri
Blog: http://craftpig.blogspot.com
My mom gave me 3 things in life that I thank her for every day.
#1 she taught me how to [...]
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!)
Name: Diana Gonzalez
Age: 32
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Work at home Mother, baby wrangler, crafter
Craft(s) of Choice: knitting, crocheting, paper crafting, mixed media collage, altered art, embroidery
Blog: http://www.confessionsofacraftaholic.blogspot.com
I started making art and working with paper and such, some time ago, around the time I met my husband. I had a hard time growing up; things don’t always [...]
Name: Elizabeth Kalka
Age: (cough) 41
Location: San Antonio Texas
Profession : Etsy Shop Owner and WAHM of 4 boys
Craft(s) of Choice: Crochet & Cross Stitch
Blog: http://www.lavenderlizard.blogspot.com
Every Christmas since my oldest son (now 12) was born, I have made ornaments for each of my boys. Usually they have been cross-stitched, but sometimes they are crafted or crocheted. Some [...]
Name: Elizabeth Lay
Age: prime
Location: Orlean, VA
Profession: Textile Artist
Craft(s) of Choice: needlepoint
Blog: http://www.orleanfinetapestry.com
My mother taught me to needlepoint when I was about 10 years old. She had already taught me to knit but there was something about needlepoint; it was like coloring with both hands. I fell in love immediately. There is a tactile joy, a [...]
Name: Erin Adams
Age: 37
Location: Troy, Ohio
Profession: I just returned to work after being a stay at home mom for 12 years, both kids are in school full time now & I found myself talking to the dog a little to much!! Before that, I owned ENCORE Dance Studios that I started when I was 15.
Craft(s) [...]
