Name: Sofi Mandil
Age: 10
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Profession: Grade School Student
Craft(s) of Choice:: Needle Felting & Weaving
Blog: http://earthsessions.blogspot.com
When I was 9 years old my taught me how to make felted people. I was really excited because it was really fun and I was really good at it. Then one day I got tired of making only [...]
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: Anabel Sousa
Age: 33
Location: Paris
Profession: Free lance artisan
Craft(s) of Choice: Weaving, crocheting, knitting, and a little bit of sewing
Blog: http://crearescreer.wordpress.com
I started when I was a little girl. My mother knitted and crocheted and she passed me the first tips. Then I went to an art school and not many years ago I went into weaving. [...]
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: Julie Kornblum
Age: 49
Location: Woodland Hills CA
Profession: Fiber Artist
Craft(s) of Choice: Weaving, Basketry, Knitting, Sewing
Blog: http://www.juliekornblum.blogspot.com
My earliest memories are my mother sewing across the room while I played with fabric scraps on the couch. Growing up, I did it all: embroidery, crewel, beading, macramé, decorated Christmas tree ornaments and Easter eggs, knitting and crochet [...]
Name: Erin Evans
Age: 25
Location: Georgia, USA
Profession: Freelance artist and crafter
Craft(s) of Choice: Sewing mainly, but also crocheting, knitting, weaving
Blog: http://erinmevans.blogspot.com/
This is much harder to put into words than I thought it would be. After much thinking and debating I have come to the conclusion….I craft and make art because I have no choice. It [...]
