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Spotlight: Ana Paula Brasil, Textile Artist
With roots in Brazil and at home in Canada, Ana Paula Brasil creates exuberant fiber art full of color and personality. Her art quilts, often created in series, convey stories…
Spotlight: Amy Herzog, Knitter
Amy Herzog is on a mission to make knitting a creative adventure that results in wearable garments that fit. She has literally written the book on the subject, and is…
Spotlight: Karen Payton, Fiber Artist
Karen Payton combines recycled textiles, paint, fabric scraps and stitch to create portraits inspired by hippies, love, music and joy. She shops thrift stores and transforms the fabric with bold…
Spotlight: Oksana Kokovkina, Embroidery Artist
Oksana Kokovkina has always had a passion for creating and a love for dogs. Now a professional embroiderer, she prefers to work in miniature because small pieces are intimate and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Spotlight: Lyric Kinard, Textile Artist
Lyric Montgomery Kinard is an award winning artist with a passion for sparking the creativity that she knows each of her students possesses. With playful support and gentle encouragement she…
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…
Spotlight: Heidi Proffetty, Textile Artist
Starting with a photograph depicting an important person or event in her life, Heidi Proffetty creates art quilts in the style of mosaics. Her innovative use of a digital cutter…
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…
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…