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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!

Julia Weber and some of her ceramic bowls

Spotlight: Julia Claire Weber, Ceramic Artist

With a clean, graphic look achieved with self-printed original decals that add a decorative layer, ceramic artist Julia Claire Weber has built a career in the art medium she loves.…
Kamala Murali Wild Bougainvillea Quilt

Spotlight: Kamala Murali, Textile Designer

Kamala Murali, textile designer, rethinks the definition of "waste". Beginning with off cuts from factories in her native India, Kamala improvises her designs depending on what materials are available on…
Geometric flower quilt by Melissa Marginet

Spotlight: Melissa Marginet, Quilt Designer

An enthusiastic advocate for quilting with a walking foot, quilt designer, author and teacher Melissa Marginet makes quilting accessible by showing students how to use the basic sewing machine accessory.…
Apple Cider BOM by Amy Friend

Spotlight: Amy Friend, Modern Quilt Designer

Challenging herself to bring floral designs to the world of modern quilting, quilt designer Amy Friend faced a challenge: how to render the curves of nature with the straight lines…
Steep Courthouse Steps by Karen Maple

Spotlight: Karen Maple, Quilt Artist

Converting ideas into two-dimensional images drives the work of quilt artist Karen Maple. She starts with a story, often about social injustice, and creates compelling contemporary images using the traditional…
Purple, turquoise and white quilt by Jane Hauprich

Spotlight Jane Hauprich, Quilter and Designer

Quilting her own early quilts with an eye toward helping the family budget, award winning quilter and designer Jane Hauprich loved the process so much she started quilting for others,…
Orange Creamsicle by Michelle Wilkie

Spotlight: Michelle Wilkie, Textile Artist

Michelle Wilkie sets apart from the crowd with her clean and simple lines along with colors that engage the viewer in her textile art. Achieving the seeming simplicity of minimalist…
Melon Sky by Ann Feitelson

Spotlight: Ann Feitelson, Quilt Artist

With formal training as a painter, quilt artist Ann Feitelson dedicated the first years of her art career to using a paintbrush, creating landscapes and still lifes with vivid, expressive…
Winter 2021 scarf by Jen Hewett

Spotlight: Jen Hewett, Designer and Textile Artist

Jen Hewett is a successful print maker, surface designer and textile artist. She is also an advocate for women of color who enjoy expressing themselves with craft. Knowing that there…
Quarter Square Triangle finished

How to Make an Hourglass Quilt Block: Free Tutorial

Hourglass quilt blocks are also referred to as quarter square triangles. They are a basic quilt block you can use alone or combine with other blocks to form more intricate…
Rainbow circles quilt by Annabel Wrigley

Spotlight: Annabel Wrigley, Textile Artist

A common thread in textile artist, designer and author Annabel Wrigley quilt designs is joyful, playful color. This busy mom designs quilts, writes books, publishes patterns, designs fabric and teaches…
The queen cross stitch pattern by David Hastings

Spotlight: David Hastings, Multidisciplinary Designer

With a drive to create, Multidisciplinary Designer and Art Director David Hastings found encouragement from a young age to pursue art and design. Depending on the project, he may sharpen…
Deer amigurumi by Kate McCully

Spotlight: Kate McCully, Amigurumi Pattern Designer

From sock monsters to crocheted dolls, Amigurumi Pattern Designer Kate McCully's imagination has always been filled with creative ideas that she then simply had to make with her own hands.…
Pulsar by Yvonne Fuchs

Spotlight Yvonne Fuchs, Modern Quilter and Designer

Most people fear rejection. Instead, Modern Quilter and Designer Yvonne Fuchs actively pursues it, pushing her skills to discover her strengths and the processes that best express her vision. The…
Quilt coat by Karoline

Spotlight: Karoline Dahrling Hughes, Sustainable Sewist

Rules? What rules? For sustainable sewist and crafter Karoline Dahrling Hughes, the joy is in the making. Creating is above all a happy pursuit filled with embraceable imperfections that we…
Out of the Funk by Claire Passmore

Spotlight: Claire Passmore, Textile Artist

Taking the art quilt to new dimensions - 3 dimensions, textile artist Claire Passmore pushes herself to explore experimental materials and processes to achieve her vision. Claire works spontaneously, but…
Alcazar Blooms by Tighe Flanagan

Spotlight: Tighe Flanagan, Quilter and Designer

Life takes interesting turns, and a stint teaching in Jordan for the Peace Corps ignited a passion for the geometric grids and patterns of Islamic art, transforming Tighe Flanagan from…
Starting Kumihimo weaving

Kumihimo Supplies for Beginners

Kumihimo, an old Japanese braiding technique, looks complicated, but the process is really very easy to learn. Newbies to the craft will have greater success with the right Kumihimo supplies…

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