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 to learn. After she passed away, [...]
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: 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 that I could no longer work. This [...]
Name: Jenessa Keller
Age: 28
Location: Meadville, Missouri
Profession: Day Care provider and full-time Masters student
Craft(s) of Choice:: Spinning, Dyeing, Knitting, and Crochet
Blog: http://www.myfairyarn.artfire.com
During my senior year of college I was the lone person left (or so it seemed) in my tiny little college town during Thanksgiving break so I went off to the Wal-Mart in search of [...]
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: Jenny Bannock
Age: 34
Location: Connecticut
Profession: Adult Education Secretary, Knitting & Spinning teacher, & Yarn Small Business Owner
Craft(s) of choice: Spinning, knitting, crochet, sewing, embroidery
Blog: http://divinebird.com/wordpress
When I was 12, my mom sat me down at her sewing machine and declared that I was NOT going to grow up to be someone who couldn’t hem a pair [...]
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 [...]
Name: Joey Tan
Age: 10
Location: Fair Oaks, CA
Profession: Homeschooler – 5th Grade
Craft(s) of Choice: Crochet, Spinning, Sewing, Felting, Card Weaving, Dyeing
Blog: http://www.syrendell.blogspot.com
I enjoy spinning yarns, crocheting presents and sewing new fashion out of old clothes. I demo spinning and Tunisian crochet at conferences and workshops along with my mom. I just got back from a [...]
Name: Julie Anderson
Age: 39
Location: Joliet, IL
Profession: Knitting Designer
Craft(s) of Choice: Knitting, spinning, weaving, paper craft, braiding, book binding, embroidery, and much more!
Blog: http://www.boogaj.com
I remember the first time I picked up the knitting needles. My mom was a knitter and her mother before her, so when I was old enough, she got me a skein of [...]
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 [...]
