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Create Whimsy

Create Whimsy

At Create Whimsy, we’re artists, makers, crafters and creators – just like you. We share the stories of makers and what they make, inspiring creativity in our everyday lives.

If you enjoy inspiring artist Spotlight interviews as well as helpful how-to tutorials and project ideas for quilting, embroidery, beadwork, sewing and fiber art, then settle in with a cuppa or a glassa.

We think that after you visit you’ll want to come back!

Conversations 2 by Lindsay Metcalf

Spotlight: Lindsay Metcalf, Mixed Media Artist

As a high school art teacher, Lindsay Metcalf fosters growth and change in her students. As a mixed media artist, Lindsay embodies those principles in her own work while modeling…
Crochet spider

Spotlight: Vanessa Mooncie, Contemporary Craft Designer

With generations of creative family to inspire her, contemporary craft designer Vanessa Mooncie has been making with her hands since childhood. Her crochet projects can be as large as a…
Rachel Breuklander Original Macrame Landscape

Spotlight: Rachel Breuklander, Macramé Artist

Macramé artist Rachel Breuklander creates her nature-inspired fiber art with a belief that everyone has a seed of creativity that can blossom when nurtured. For Rachel, her medium is macramé,…
Lisa's original paintings for her deck

Spotlight: Lisa Solomon, Mixed Media Artist

Mixed media artist Lisa Solomon likes to give every creative form its chance. If a medium helps her tell a story, that's the one she uses. It might be textiles,…
Popart quilt by Christina

Spotlight: Christina Cameli, Quilter and Teacher

Try to keep up with quilter and teacher Christina Cameli. We dare you. Christina designs both improvisational and structured quilts, creates free motion quilting designs, writes books on quilting, teaches…
Leah Nikolaou Paper Embroidery- Bag

Spotlight: Leah Nikolaou, Textile Designer

A number of serendipitous a-ha moments inspired textile designer Leah Nikolaou to combine several techniques, creating her embroidered pressed flower art. She plans meticulously, including deciding which seeds to plant…
Indigo shibori dyed pieces hanging

Spotlight: Suzanne Connors, Textile Artist

Exploring the versatility of Indigo dyeing, textile artist Suzanne Connors stitches, binds and clamps fabric, then dips it in natural Indigo to achieve an endless variety of textiles full of…

Spotlight: Charlotte Bell, Fiber Artist and Photographer

When fiber artist and photographer Charlotte Bell found a village of rug hookers in Mexico, she knew their folk art was something special. With a visit that began as a…
Mathew Boudreaux woven tumbling blocks

Spotlight: Mathew Boudreaux, aka Mister Domestic

Mathew Boudreaux, aka Mister Domestic, has an enthusiasm for creating that's hard to resist! He channels his love of color and making into building an inclusive creative community that shares…
Orange Crush

Spotlight: Susan Braverman, Contemporary Quilt and Watercolor Artist

With passions for both watercolor painting and quilting, contemporary quilt and watercolor artist Susan Braverman is always working on something creative in her studio. The common thread that keeps Susan…
Woman in tub embroidery art by Bianca Springer

Spotlight: Bianca Springer; Fiber Artist

Fiber artist Bianca Springer has a vision: to create culturally relevant work that encourages others to make art a meaningful part of their own lives. She didn't see people who…
Cyndi McChesney SheSheds22

Spotlight Cyndi McChesney, Quilt Artist and Long-arm Quilter

Quilt artist and long-arm quilter Cyndi McChesney designs a few steps ahead of herself, planning her next quilts while her current project is still on the design wall. That keeps…
Needle felted dog 6

Spotlight: Jules Bianchi, Needle Felt Artist

Needle felt artist Jules Bianchi has taken three creative passions - photography, filmmaking and needle felting - and created stop-motion short films that feature her felted characters. With an eye…

Spotlight: Beth Hoyes, Embroidery Artist

Transitions in the natural world inspire embroidery designer Beth Hoyes as she draws parallels between creatures and humans who grow through many changes during their lives. Her work examines the…
Crochet balls

Spotlight: Iris van Meer, Crochet Designer

Inspired by her online community, crochet designer Iris van Meer makes crochet accessible by translating patterns that are beginner-friendly and (mostly) free that she offers in her club, A Nice…
Collider quilt cross stich

Spotlight: Sally Wilson, Cross Stitch Designer and Artist

Is there a person, place or thing that can't inspire a cross stitch design? Cross stitch designer and artist Sally Wilson hasn't found one. Whatever your interest and ability level,…
Normandy

Spotlight: Pat Pauly, Contemporary Art Quilter

Approaching her work in stages, contemporary art quilter Pat Pauly finds uniqueness and synergy. In her printmaking studio, she creates original fabric, each piece different from the one before, but…
Four skulls quilt

Spotlight: Chris Marchini, Quilt Artist

How many sewists remember learning to sew by making clothes for their Cabbage Patch dolls? That's how quilt artist Chris Marchini fell in love with stitching pieces of fabric together.…

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