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, [...]
Name: Missie Zee (Crafting with Cat Hair) Age: 34 Location: Raleigh, NC Profession: Proofreader for book design company Craft(s) of Choice: crochet, hand sewing, cross-stitch, embroidery Blog: http://craftingwithcathair.blogspot.com I have been crafting ever since I was a child. What started out as playtime (Shrinky Dinks, Fashion Plates, and Lite-Brite) led to my own Etsy shop [...]
Name: Shelley McElhiney Age: Age: Location: Tacoma, WA Craft(s) of Choice: embroidery, photography, jewelry making, crochet, sewing… Blog: http://samsstuf-samsstuff.blogspot.com I started crafting as a wee child. My grandmother taught me a lot of what I know today. She was an amazing, creative & strong woman, particularly for her day! Beyond that my parents, my father [...]
Name: Valerie Williams Age: 32 Location: Washington DC Metro Profession: full time designer and sewer Craft(s) of Choice: sewing, quilting, embroidery, crochet, knitting Blog: http://hollandcox.blogspot.com I learned to sew and crochet when I was 10 years old, but had stopped doing anything crafty by the time I graduated high school. After college, as my quarter-life [...]
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 [...]
Name: Rose Garrod Age: 28 Location: Shandon, Ohio Profession: Homemaker Craft(s) of choice: knitting (I’m an addict), a little embroidery, and general kids crafts (I’m usually a “room-mom”) When asked as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up I always said,”I want to be a wife and mother.” To me that’s [...]
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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
