Name: Barbara Age: 32 Location: Chicago IL Profession: Industrial Designer Craft(s) of Choice: Sewing, crochet, knitting, “recycling” Blog: http://www.mylittleaura.com When I just had my first baby I couldn’t look for a full time job so I started checking Craigslist for something…One day I found a person looking for knitters so I applied… the funniest part [...]
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 [...]
Name: Beverly Tilton Age: 45 Location: Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Profession: Disability Craft(s) of Choice: Knitting, Crocheting, Spinning Blog: http://beverlysyarncrazy.blogspot.com I have done crafts of some sort all my life, but work and other obligations always came first. So there would be big breaks in between projects. About 2.5 years ago, I became so disabled [...]
Name: Brian Steinmetz Age: 13 Location: PA Profession: Middle School Student Craft(s) of Choice: Knitting I learned to knit with my mom. I have Asperger’s Syndrome and knitting makes me feel less anxious and more happy. My mom and I learned to knit together. We have alot of fun knitting all kinds of stuff. Sometimes [...]
Name: Brianna Age: 29 Location: Connecticut Profession: Counselor Craft(s) of Choice: Crochet, sewing, knitting, painting, photography. Blog: http://thehooknook.blogspot.com At approximately 10 years old I thought crocheting was the coolest thing in the world. Until I went to high school and realized it wasn’t “cool” at all. Then I went to college, and towards the tailend [...]
Name: Carly Age: 32 Location: Minster,Ohio Profession: Stay at home Mommy Craft(s) of Choice: Knitting, crochet, scrapbooking I wanted to learn to Knit soo bad.. I bought a kit at Joann Fabics..Took it home and gave up after hours of trying to just do a SLIPKNOT!!! Pathetic i know.. About two years later took the [...]
Name: Carrie Barnhardt-Penny Age: 25 Location: Columbia, SC Profession: Homemaker and soon to be a college student again Craft(s) of Choice: Knitting and Crochet Blog: www.sadlonelycreator.blogspot.com I started crocheting almost 20 years ago one summer at my grandmother’s house. I was so hyper and so bored while I was up there my grandmother took out [...]
Name: Cassie Seals Age: 23 Location: Rockford, Ohio Profession: College Student, Retail Craft(s) of Choice: Knit, crochet, sew, paint, just about anything else I can get into! Blog: http://knittingseal.blogspot.com/ I actually just started to knit from watching Knitty Gritty when I was hugely pregnant and unable to sleep at night. Well now my daughter is [...]
Name: Christine Neese Age: 33 Location: Ft Collins, CO Profession: Stay At Home Mom Craft(s) of Choice: Knitting, Sewing, Cooking, Papercraft, Blog: http://www.mountainmamaknits.blogspot.com When I was a child, I would watch my mom knit. She never taught me how because she didn’t want me messing around with her tools so I just watched everything she [...]
Name: Christy Nelson Age: 33 Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Profession: former Spanish teacher turned mom that gets some extra cash hawking her crafts on etsy and local craft fairs. Craft(s) of Choice: Knitting, stamping, sewing Blog: http://craftyconservative.blogspot.com “I made it myself!” That is one of my favorite things to say and has been throughout my life. [...]
