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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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Blue and gold weaving

Spotlight: Lindsey Campbell, Artist and Weaver

Lindsey Campbell has a passion for craft and its transformative power to change lives for the better. She balances teaching weaving to others via online classes, writing instructional and inspiring…
Wiggle Room glass art by Carol Milne

Spotlight: Carol Milne, Knitted Glass Artist

Carol Milne has blazed a new artistic path with her work in knitted glass. Bringing the visual illusion of softness and drape to a material that is fixed in its…
Piccadilly Square

Spotlight: Gyleen Fitzgerald, Writer and Quilter

Gyleen Fitzgerald makes quilts that blend color, pattern, and texture to provide a contemporary sensibility to traditional quilting. Her engineering tools and innovative techniques simplify the construction of visually complex…
Sara Trail Her Story quilt

Spotlight: Sara Trail, Social Justice Sewing Academy

Sara Trail created a quilt in memory of Trayvon Martin. Then her love for sewing and passion for social justice intertwined. After graduating from the Harvard University Graduate School of…
Simple Joy quilt by Earamichia Brown

Spotlight: Earamichia Brown, Fiber Artist

Earamichia Brown always wanted to be a fashion designer. But she always excelled at academics, so she started her career as a lawyer. Now she follows her dreams and communicates…
Turquoise socks knit by Kate Atherley

Spotlight: Kate Atherley, Knitting Designer

Kate is Knitty.com’s Managing Technical Editor and a seasoned designer and teacher of all things knitterly. She’s known for her attention to detail in her patterns and her classes, and…
Once in a Blue Moon coat by Marijke van Welzen

Spotlight: Marijke van Welzen, Wearable Artist

Marijke van Welzen creates wearable art using techniques she developed over the years. Not afraid of experimentation or a challenge, Marijke produces unique art garments that explore a theme or…
Janet Clare stitching houses on fabric

Spotlight: Janet Clare, Textile Designer

Janet Clare has a work "uniform", her Artisan Apron, that inspires her studio practice with stitched motivations that remind her why and how to create. It must work, because Janet…
Touch of Color fiber art by Sherri McCauley

Spotlight: Sherri Lipman McCauley, Fiber Artist

A paint flinger. Sherri Lipman McCauley's description of her process does more than hint at her improvisational style. Sherri's art cloth begins with plain white fabric that she transforms into…
Fitting garments on mannequins by Steffani Lincecum

Spotlight: Steffani Lincecum, Sewing Pattern Maker

From playing with scraps from a sewing factory as a child to pattern making and an MFA in Costume Design, Steffani Lincecum found her calling. She is all about the…
Deborah Boschert Everything At Once quilt

Spotlight: Deborah Boschert, Textile Artist

Deborah Boschert combines fabric, paint and stitch to create art quilts with movement, color and texture. Her unique style comes from the freedom of a self-taught artist to test boundaries…
Lynn Krawczyk stitching project

Spotlight: Lynn Krawczyk, Textile Artist

Try to keep up now, y'all! Lynn Krawczyk has artistic energy will make your head spin! With a fearless approach to a blank canvas, she is a fiber artist who…
Sharon Svec and her art

Spotlight: Sharon Svec, Textile Artist

To achieve her artistic vision, Sharon Svec has adapted and reinvented processes that incorporate movement and layers into her work. A complicated pregnancy that restricted movement forced Sharon to take…
Poppies by Jenny Lyon

Spotlight: Jenny Lyon, Quilter and Garment Maker

With good instruction and practice that brings you joy, successful free motion quilting is at your fingertips. Ask Jenny Lyon how she knows - she wrote the book, after all!…
Ira crocheting on her patio with crocheted lobster rug and pillow

Spotlight: Ira Rott, Fiber Artist

Ira Rott is a fiber artist, pattern designer, and author from Southern Ontario, Canada. Raised in a home with textile enthusiasts, and learning to crochet from her grandmother, Ira has…
Vintage textile at the museum where Amy Green was executive director

Spotlight: Amy Green, Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum

Amy Green has spent most of her career working in museums and non-profit organizations supporting the arts. So it was meant to be when she moved to the Pacific Northwest…
Resin and Fiber art by Rebecca Wachtman

Spotlight: Rebecca Wachtman, Fiber Artist

Inspired by nature and a passion for recycling, Rebecca Wachtman combines the luxury of silk with upcycled materials. The result is an imaginative approach that produces silk paintings, felted work,…
Field of stars quilt by Martha Steinborn

Spotlight: Martha Steinborn, Crazy Quilter & Stitcher

A stitcher for all seasons, Martha Steinborn is a quilter, embroiderer, crazy quilter and font of information on stitches and threads. Her crazy quilting is lush and keeps the viewer…

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