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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I like to create just about anything if it involves a needle and thread. For me, bead embroidery is about painting, but I use beads as my palette. Mostly, I…
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…
When I worked for a quilt shop, I made small quilts as store samples. Before long, I had a "collection". I shared most, but kept some. I like to decorate…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
Jenny Doan took a twinkle of an idea and grew her heartland quilt shop into a creative destination for any quilter with an internet connection. If you need instruction on…
Angela Grasse has been on an artist's path her entire life, inspired by color and her collection of supplies in her studio. Never one for following a pattern, Angela used…
Sue Bleiweiss started quilting after an injury put a stop to her weaving passion. But with traditional quilting, there is this "following directions" thing, and that just didn't work for…
Artists across all mediums explore working in a series to refine a technique, explore a concept or expand on a design principle. The exploration may focus on a particular use…
Lindsay Conner collected a wealth of information from talented and accomplished art quilters, then organized it all into a volume that is sure to be a go-to reference for many…
Each of us makes art in our own way. And that’s the point. David Bayles and Ted Orland suggest in their classic book, Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils…
Gabriela Nirino is a self-described "textile nerd" who teaches at 3 universities and works in studios in Buenos Aires and Seattle. She is an accomplished weaver who pushes the boundaries…