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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.

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Mud Season 9 Patch #8 by Rosalind Daniels

Spotlight Rosalind Daniels, Fiber Artist

Fiber artist Rosalind Daniels caught the quilting bug in a typical way - to make a quilt for her first child. Her quilting journey continued, but her work took a…
Gown collage of gowns made by Joi

Spotlight: Joi Mahon, Fashion Sewing Entrepreneur

Fashion sewing entrepreneur Joi Mahon enjoys custom sewing and tailoring for clients, but she also has a passion for sharing her expertise with beginning and advancing sewists. With classes in…
Erin Case Put a Curve on It Quilt

Spotlight: Erin Case, Modern Quilter

Modern quilter Erin Case sets challenges for herself to stretch her work beyond her comfort zone. Erin works digitally before she commits her designs to fabric, using software to experiment…
Sachin sashiko jacket front

Spotlight: Sophie Cagniart, Fashion Designer

Fashion designer and textile artist Sophie Cagniart always knew she would do something creative with clothing but did not imagine elevating waste denim to an art form. By combining the…
Pineapple Ice Queen

Spotlight: Troy Murrah, Wood Mosaic Artist

How do you use hard materials to portray the softness of something like a quilt? Wood mosaic artist Troy Murrah does it by creating quilt-inspired mosaics with found and recycled…
Demin flag

Spotlight: Eliu Hernandez, Denim Textile Artist

Salvaging even the thread from discarded garments such as jeans, denim textile artist Eliu Hernandez uses materials that have been discarded by others to create art with life and texture.…
Lisa Chin IMG_20210801_185459918_HDR

Spotlight: Lisa Chin, Surface Design Artist

Do the creative work. Every day. That's what keeps surface design artist and printmaker Lisa Chin producing new work and growing as an artist. With multiple projects in the works…
Ice cream social dress

Spotlight: Erin Hentzel, Indie Pattern Designer

As many sewists do, indie pattern designer, author and teacher Erin Hentzel sewed for her children and their dolls. Sometimes the outfits matched, and other times the designs advanced hours,…
Jenny Rushmore Upton Dress 4 cropped

Spotlight: Jenny Rushmore, Pattern Designer

Challenged to find stylish clothes that fit and flattered her shape, body positive activist and pattern designer Jenny Rushmore decided to take back the power of fashion and develop a…
Melanie Tuazon Unruly

Spotlight: Melanie Tuazon, Fiber Artist

When her children were young, fiber artist Melanie Tuazon started quilting as a way to explore creativity while making practical, useful things. The making of utilitarian objects has grown into…
Back in Therapy by Laura Hartrich

Spotlight: Laura Hartrich, Quilt Artist

Have a seat because quilt artist Laura Hartrich may exhaust you! While raising her kids, working and pursuing a degree, Laura still finds time to create original, innovative quilt designs.…
Megan Brown embroidered bibs

Spotlight: Megan Brown, Sewist and Entrepreneur

Finding her stitch mojo early on, garment sewist and entrepreneur Megan Brown had family role models to inspire her. Now she makes a business out of her sewing and embroidery…
Bracken by Julia Wachs

Spotlight: Julia Wachs, Modern Quilter and Designer

Modern quilter and designer Julia Wachs' engineering roots are evident in her precisely conceived modern quilts. Noted for crisp lines and sharp angles, Julia's quilts sing with color. Foundation paper…
Dare to Have a Dream, full

Spotlight: Susan Lumsden, Fiber Artist

Fiber artist Susan Lumsden has downsized her studio space, but her creative output remains prolific, proving that it is the artist, not their surroundings, shaping the depth and breadth of…
Giakara

Spotlight: Ron Isaacson, Artist and Sculptor

Filling multiple roles in his creative life, artist, sculptor and wordsmith Ron  Isaacson has most recently sculpted creatures that inhabit a world of his own making. An early adopter of the…
Party Conversation by Irene Roderick

Spotlight: Irene Roderick, Textile Artist

Initially trained as a painter, textile artist Irene Roderick came to quilting when she was looking for ideas for a bed quilt (her first), and discovered the work of Denyse…
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…

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