Name: Amanda Duncan
Age: 25
Location: Richmond, VA
Profession: Crafts/Material Studies Major, Senior
Craft(s) (s) of Choice: Metal/silversmithed jewelry, crochet, knitting, glass working, sewing/quilting
Blog: http://spin-me-a-yarn.blogspot.com
All I ever wanted to be was an artist, I only realize now that my idea of an ‘artist’ was a ‘crafter’. In 2006, I decided to go back and finish my degree, transferring [...]
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: Cheryl
Age: 38
Location: Las Vegas
Profession: Artist & mom
Craft(s) of Choice: Art Quilts, mixed media, collage
Blog: http://urbancrafter.typepad.com
I love to be create and I love even more to share what I know with others. Teaching and creating are my passions!
Name: Christina Carr
Age: 36
Location: Escondido, CA
Profession: Special education teacher
Craft(s) of Choice: scrapbooking, cards, quilts
Blog: http://christinascreation.weebly.com
I’ve been making crafts forever. I’ve made so many crafts for Mother’s Day gifts and Christmas Gifts. I made most of the items that we used at my wedding. I also helped most of my friends with their weddings, bridal showers, [...]
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: Dale Anne Potter
Age: 54
Location: Morse, Saskatchewan, Canada
Profession: Full-time artist
Craft(s) of Choice: art quilting, stamping, mixed media
Blog (if applicable): http://dpquiltsca.blogspot.com/
Everyday the world around me — nature, its textures, rhythms and colours, the materials at hand, fabrics, paper, found objects, and the movement of life — provide me with the ideas and enthusiasm to create new [...]
Name: Fannie Narte
Age: 53
Location: Texas
Profession: Artist
Craft(s) of Choice: Mixed Media Painting, Fiber Art, Quilting
Blog: http://fanniecarte.blogspot.com
My life once was routine with daily expectations as a wife, mom, fitness instructor, dance teacher and entertainer. Life was abundant, exciting, productive and fulfilling. Then health challenges turned my world upside down. My world disappeared. Gone were the things that [...]
Name: Jen Coyle
Age: 28
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Profession: Financial Services/Asset Management
Craft(s) of Choice: Embroidery, knitting, sewing, quilting
Blog: http://stitchchick.blogspot.com
My earliest memory of being aware of crafts was my great-grandmother’s quilts. She used old feed sacks for the back and outgrown clothing from the family for the quilt top. The quilts made the past, and my family’s history [...]
Name: Jenna Zeidler
Age: 27
Location: Champaign, IL USA
Profession: Assistant Librarian at a software company
Craft(s) of Choice: Oh, I dabble in so many things! Knitting, thread crochet, sewing/quilting (So much faster than knitting! Knitting is like making your own fabric and then creating something out of it while sewing seems one step ahead of the game to [...]
Name: Jill Smith-Mott
Age: 36
Location: outside of Austin, TX
Profession: teacher, writer
Craft(s) of Choice: KNITTING, spinning, quilting
Blog: winstonandchloe.wordpress.com
I knit, spin, crochet, quilt. Sometimes I feel like I should have been born 200 years ago. There is something about using my hands to make the things I need (or want, in the case of Anthroplogie scarves), providing [...]
