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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!

Linda Cantrell The Apartment

Spotlight: Linda Cantrell, Fiber Artist

Linda Cantrell makes pictorial quilts with humor guaranteed to make you smile! Not only do her quilts tell stories, she loves to talk about the stories behind the quilts. Inspired…
Lanny Bergner Deep in the Primal Abyss Close Up

Spotlight: Lanny Bergner, Mixed Media Sculptor

You never know where a spark of inspiration will take you. As a young artist, Lanny Bergner needed to solve a problem with a piece he was working on. In…
Traveling quilt

Spotlight: Mary Lou Weidman, Quilt Designer

With a riot of color and whimsical energy, you just can't frown at a Mary Lou Weidman quilt! Mary Lou uses her quilts as a medium to tell stories, and…
Home Collage

Spotlight: Caitlin Dundon, Calligrapher

A lover of color, pattern, depth, layers and words, Caitlin Dundon creates mixed media art that is as much about the process as the product. The result is work that…
Flóra Carlile-Kovács Blue Fissure 2

Spotlight: Flóra Carlile-Kovács, Felt Artist

Flóra Carlile-Kovács has found her creative calling and loves every part of the felt making process. Beginning with a plan, then working instinctively as she responds to her materials, Flóra…
Cathy Wiggins Western 7

Spotlight: Cathy Wiggins, Leather Artist

When quilting on fabric wasn't quite enough to achieve her artistic vision, Cathy Wiggins decided to try leather instead. That experiment launched her deep exploration of leather as a quilting…
Marie Bergstedt Endura

Spotlight: Marie Bergstedt, Mixed Media Artist

Marie Bergstedt is a fiber artist whose work defies traditional categories. Always telling a story with her pieces, she uses whatever materials and techniques best tell the story. And there…
Bright Triangle Quilt

Spotlight: Sheila Christensen, Quilter and Designer

Sheila Christensen got so hooked on quilting that she bought a quilt shop! She started designing quilts for her customers to make, specializing in bold geometric shapes that make her…
Jacobean Crewelwork

Spotlight: Sara Rickards, Embroidery Artist

You can catch a glimpse of Sara Rickards' work anywhere from video tutorials to kits to design to red carpets and the runways of fashion designers. And she does it…
Georgia Bonesteel green horse quilt

Spotlight: Georgia Bonesteel, Inventor of Lap Quilting

Georgia Bonesteel has been at the center of the quilting world since the quilting revival of the 1970s. Her innovative lap quilting technique made quilting more accessible without the need…
Cameron Mason 3D vessel 2

Spotlight: Cameron Anne Mason, Fiber Artist

Creating has always been central to Cameron Mason, from artful childhood time with paper and cardboard to her current work with surface design creating fiber art in two and three…
Vintage Dutch Girl quilt

Spotlight: Judy Gula, Artistic Artifacts

Judy Gula invites you to join her on a journey of creativity, color and collaboration. She specializes in mixed media fiber arts, incorporating vintage textiles and materials from around the…
8 of Cups

Spotlight: Judy Coates Perez, Textile Artist

The color and texture that Judy Coates Perez achieves in her mixed media textile art begins with a blank canvas of plain white fabric. With paint, print, collage and stitch…
Huo Long

Spotlight: Deborah Tirico, Needle Artist

Deborah Tirico layers fabric with stitches, creating vibrant, detailed designs that she stitches with precision. Her recent work with wool has a richness of depth and texture that invite the…
Restricted Zone

Spotlight: Jenny Fillius, Metal Collage Artist

Growing up in a family of artists, Jenny Fillius took the creative path as well. Using what others toss away, she creates colorful and whimsical 3-D works of collage art…
Meeting of the Geese

Spotlight: Sylvia Schaefer, Modern Quilter

Can art and science get along? Of course they can! With a Ph.D. in marine science, Sylvia Schaefer approaches quilting from a scientist's point of view, always asking, "What if?"…
Golden Summer of Love: A Moment Under Crystal Pier

Spotlight: Leslie Tucker Jenison, Quilt Artist

Leslie Tucker Jenison makes contemporary quilts - works of art in fabric. Anything can spark an idea - for a single piece or for a series to explore a subject…
Compassion

Spotlight: Hollis Chatelain, Textile Artist

Inspired by her humanitarian work in Africa, Hollis Chatelain creates art quilts that raise awareness of the human condition in the third world. Back in the States, she wanted to…

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