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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.

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The Long Goodbye by Lea McComas

Spotlight: Lea McComas, Thread Painter & Fiber Artist

As Lea McComas travels the world and immerses herself in rich and vibrant cultures, her art reflects the human experience. With fabric and thread, she captures moments that highlight the…
Seeshall by Yulia Brodskaya

Spotlight: Yulia Brodskaya, Artist and Illustrator

What's in a name? In illustrator Yulia Brodskaya's case, her name was instrumental in discovering her unique process of creating paper art. Reaching for a way to illustrate "Yulia" in…
Models with some of the sewsquad patterns

Spotlight: Zoey Washington, DIY Fashion Brand Creator

Zoey Washington's SEWSQUAD is all about creating an inclusive line of DIY fashion to empower a young audience to find their own style and rock it. Her super-accessible designs can…
En Route by Faith Hagenhofer

Spotlight: Faith Hagenhofer, Fiber Artist and Shepherd

For as long as she can remember, Faith Hagenhofer has made creative things. But when she and the hands-on process of feltmaking connected, it was kismet - and she shows…
Wool applique table runner by Mary Blythe

Spotlight: Mary Blythe, Designer of Heirloom Handwork

With a love of antiques, creating with warm, rich wool is a natural artistic outlet for Mary Blythe. She designs heirloom projects with the future in mind, encouraging others to…
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Kim Ritter

Spotlight: Kim Ritter, Quilt Artist

Kim Ritter loves computers and quilts and has created her unique style of art quilting by combining the two. Kim's quilts are full of color, humor and a little something…
Bird quilt made with TAP by Lesley Riley

Spotlight: Lesley Riley, Mixed Media Artist

With an artist inside waiting for release, Lesley Riley's imagination collects and combines words and images. Then she sets them free. From fiber to collage to painting to cyanotype to…
Love Is Spoken Here Quilt - full image

Spotlight: Annie Smith, Quilt Designer

When Annie Smith discovered her passion for appliqué, she never looked back. Her quilts express the joy she feels when she creates, and she shares it by teaching - through…
Print and block made by Coral Black

Spotlight: Coral Black, Painter and Block Printer

Painting and block printing are hands-on media, perfect for this hands-on artist. Inspired by the natural wonders that await around every bend in the Pacific Northwest, Coral Black captures the…
On the Road - Road Rage by Sandra Sider

Spotlight: Sandra Sider, Artist, Critic and Curator

A champion of the studio art quilt, Sandra Sider makes her own art while advancing the medium by writing books, teaching and curating exhibits. With her passion to "get it…
Double hour glass work in progress

Spotlight: Barbara Eikmeier, Quilt Designer

With multiple projects in process at any given time, it's hard to find a busier quilter than Barbara Eikmeier. Her first quilt? The Streak of Lightning pattern, of course! Barbara…
Salish

Spotlight: Sylvia Pippen, Sashiko & Applique Designer

Enter the world of Sylvia Pippen to discover intricate nature-inspired designs of rich color formed with appliqué and sashiko. She learned from the best, her mother Kitty Pippen, who encouraged…
Townscape by Masako

Spotlight: Masako Wakayama, Quilt Designer

In the Japanese tradition of meticulous hand stitching, Masako Wakayama designs fresh-looking quilts using the colors of Americana. Her quilts, books and 20 years of annual fabric collections for Lecien…
Artemis

Spotlight: Chris McLaughlin, Fiber Artist

As a suburban child, Chris McLaughlin knew she was always a farmer at heart. Now she lives her dream raising animals for fiber and flowers for bouquets and botanical dyes.…
Arizona

Spotlight: Sam Barsky, Artistic Knitter

When traveling, most people take photographs or buy postcards of landmarks. Some even mark their visits with selfies. But Sam Barsky takes all of that to an artist's extreme. Before…
Atlanta

Creative Things to Do In and Around Atlanta

Visiting Atlanta and wondering what creative things to do in and around the city? We've got some of our favorite suggestions -- from museums to parks, and shopping tips. If…
Music Room by Susan Brandeis

Spotlight: Susan Brandeis, Textile Artist

After 45 years of creating, exhibiting, teaching and writing about textile art, Susan Brandeis is as enthusiastic as ever about creating her own visual language and helping others do the…
Hardware Cloth Quilt

Spotlight: Libby Williamson, Fiber Artist

Growing up with artists as parents, Libby Williamson explored many ways of creating, and that is reflected in her fiber art today. With complex layers of fabric, paint, dye, print,…

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