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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!

The Rainbow serpent head close-up

Spotlight: Sarah Lovett, Artist and Psychic

If you happen to find yourself anywhere near Sarah Lovett's art, you can't miss it! Her giant puppets are large, colorful, glowing and powered by humans collaborating their movements in…
Donna Dowdney Radiant Strata

Spotlight: Donna Lee Dowdney, Fabric Artist

Bringing as much meticulous attention to her work as an artist as she brought to her technical career, Donna Lee Dowdney creates nature-inspired visual art with fabric and mixed media.…
Tesi Vaara / Gail Harker

The Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts

From conception to execution to exhibition, students at the Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts stretch their creative reach to find their own voices and expand their skills by experimenting…
Up and Down

Spotlight: Kate Colleran, Quilt Pattern Designer

Kate Colleran's "hobby business" has blossomed into a full-time enterprise designing quilts, quilting tools and classes. Her complex-looking patterns are surprisingly easy to construct using the tools and techniques she…
Katie Pasquini Masopust Valerian Quilt

Spotlight: Katie Pasquini Masopust, Quilt Artist

Art quilt pioneer Katie Pasquini Masopust is always on the hunt for her next challenging series of work. And when she finds it, she perfects it, then shares her colorful…
Homeage to the Quilters of Gee's Bend

Spotlight: Silke Cliatt, Fiber Artist

It's never too late to start something new, and those things you loved to do as a child re-emerge later as a foundation for future creative work. That's what Silke…
Candyce Copp Grisham Service for 12

Spotlight: Candyce Copp Grisham, Fiber Artist

Candyce Copp Grisham has taken the classic Dresden quilt block and transformed it into a bright, cheery and versatile design element. She is enthusiastic about her discoveries and shares them…
XLI: The Prague Spanish Synagogue Quilt - Full

Spotlight: Paula Nadelstern, Quilt Artist

Who would have thought that someone who makes the intricate kaleidoscopic designs that Paula Nadelstern creates in fabric is a self-taught quilter? How fortunate for us that she did not…
Lush Summer

Spotlight: Lucy Levenson, Folk Art Designer

Her brave use of color when combining fabric, stitch and paint sets Lucy Levenson apart from the crowd. With intricate details, her fanciful work invites an up close and personal…
Mother Clucker

Spotlight: Timna Tarr, Quilt Designer and Artist

One of Timna Tarr's quilts might use hundreds of fabrics to achieve the color variation and visual texture her work is known for. That doesn't sound like a recipe for…
Fairy Tale cross stitch by Lizzy Dabczynski-Bean

Spotlight: Lizzy Dabczynski-Bean, Stitcher

This is not your grandmother's cross stitch. Lizzy Dabczynski-Bean began with admiring the work of her grandmother and great-grandmother. Lizzy gives it all a new twist with contemporary patterns depicting…
Mariana Murabito weavings

Spotlight: Mariana Murabito, Textile Artist

In her journey from web and graphic design to weaving, Mariana Murabito discovered the joy of creating images by hand with warp and weft on the island of Mallorca. She…
Night Garden

Spotlight: Amanda Murphy, Quilt Designer

Try to keep up! Amanda Murphy designs fabric for Benartex, creates quilt patterns, writes books on quilting, creates her own line of quilting rulers and teaches workshops at BERNINA dealerships.…
Laura Lee Ullrich Turquoise Necklace

Spotlight: Laura Lee Ullrich, Bead Artist

Who knew that a self-taught bead artist could create such intricate work? With no beading classes nearby, Laura Lee Ullrich picked a project she loved from a magazine and has…
Spring Trio

Spotlight: Jane Sassaman, Quilt Artist

Jane Sassaman has a distinctive artistic voice that speaks clearly in her art quilts, the fabric she designs and her workshops. Her whimsical, graphic and colorful designs require a vivid…
Larry Calkins School

Spotlight: Larry Calkins, Mixed Media Artist

Finding inspiration in the world around him, Larry Calkins creates art that provokes laughter and emotion. In his hand-built studio/home, and sometimes outside it, he works with paint, fiber, metal,…
Kathy Seaman Shaw Crazy Quilting

Spotlight: Kathy Seaman Shaw, Crazy Quilter

Give Kathy Seaman Shaw a plain seam, and she will transform it with fancy stitches and beads. Kathy is a prolific crazy quilter, constantly designing new embroidery combinations and sharing…
Karen Fletcher Creatures Comforts Cardigan

Spotlight: Karen Fletcher, Knitter and Programmer

Are the arts and the sciences mutually exclusive? Karen Fletcher doesn't think so! As a computer programmer who knits (or as a knitter who programs), Karen sees strong parallels. In…

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