Alanna Wilcox is a fiber artist, educator, Master Spinner and color specialist with acid dyes. She loves empowering fellow fiber enthusiasts by helping them overcome their creative challenges, learn new skills, and achieve their fiber related goals through her expert instruction via online workshops...

Amie Palmer is a lifelong fiber arts enthusiast who believes there are two types of projects: the ones that require concentration and those meant for meeting up to chat with fellow fiber artists. She always has at least one of each in progress. Based in Durham, NC, Amie loves teaching for local ...

Amy is an artist and basketry instructor living in the forest of the Catskill Mountains. Her project, Cambium Lost Arts, is one dedicated to the revival of dying or forgotten practices of traditional craft. Currently, her focus is centered on the practice of hand-split white oak and skeined willow b...

Carlise Azmitia is a working artist, teacher and Hudson Valley native. She regularly travels the region teaching felting, air dry clay, watercolor and meditative art. 2026 has seen her teaching at Adams School of Art at Hammond Museum, Alice Desmond Center, Bronxville Adult School, several area libr...

Dahlia Popovits has been designing and weaving extraordinary clothes and accessories utilizing her award winning handwoven textiles made with the finest luxury yarns from around the world, for nearly 50 years. Her work can be seen in her Boston gallery, dahliahandmade.com, which features her handwov...

Debbie Held is a freelance writer and the author of The Spinner’s Blending Board Bible: From Woolen to (Nearly) Worsted, and an international fiber arts instructor. She writes recurring spinning-related content for Spin Off in print and on the web as well as for PLY, Farm & Fiber Knits, Little L...

Donna Kay is a knitting instructor and designer as well as an accomplished hand spinner. Known for her patient teaching manner, she delights in sharing her knowledge and passion with her students. Donna has taught or designed for Interweave Knits, Harrisville Designs, John C Campbell Folk School, Rh...

Elizabeth Whitton is a mompreneur who turned her love of wool into a thriving family-run needle felting business called Felted Sky. She and her husband have managed the business together full time since 2019. Elizabeth enjoys teaching through her kits, in person and online. Her work has been feature...

Emily learned to knit three times -- once when she was a kid, once during college, and finally about five years after that. The last time, it stuck. She's been designing knitting patterns since 2011 and tries to hit the sweet spot with patterns that are fun and engaging to knit, but also easy to und...

Erin Gardner is the founder and co-owner of Grey Fox Felting where she has taught thousands of students to needle felt through her in-person and online classes and kits. She has exhibited her finished work at galleries and fine art fairs throughout New England and has been featured in Handmade Art: ...

Jan McClary Rowell is a handweaver in Albany, NY, and a member of the Hudson Mohawk Weavers Guild. Since childhood she has been working in various fiber arts. In 2004 she discovered the joy of handweaving and has been exploring the use of color, fiber, and weave structure to create cloth ever since...

Jane has spent many years working as a production weaver. In 1991 she earned an MFA from San Francisco State University with a concentration in textiles. She is a weaver, spinner and natural dyer with particular interest in researching natural dyeing processes and ethnic textile techniques and is a...

Kathy Sparks has been involved with fiber in some way, shape or form for the past 45 years. She honed her craft both by earning a Master’s Degree in Dye Chemistry from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, as well as studying with and learning from other artists. A retired instructor at t...

Katalin Lovász (Kati) was born and raised in Hungary, and had a passion for textiles and embroidery since a young age. She learned to sew from her grandmother, who in Communist-era Hungary made many of her family’s clothes, and collected patterns from Burda magazines smuggled in from then-West Germa...

TOFT is a British craft company based in rural Warwickshire and home of the Edward's Menagerie and Alexandra's Garden collections of crochet animals and flowers by Kerry Lord. Bringing traditional crafts and contemporary designs together using luxury materials, we specialise in beginner knit and cro...

Kim began knitting at a very young age but only became compulsive as an adult. She founded YarnStory, an LYS in Honolulu, where she taught hundreds of people to knit and introduced many to the joy of hand knit socks. Leaving the role of the Yarn Lady behind, Kim is currently based in Monroe, Wiscons...

Lisa Dachinger is a fiber artist, certified organic natural dye grower, and educator based in Lanesborough, MA. At Hilltop Farm & Fiber Arts, she grows dye plants and creates naturally dyed yarns & textiles, drawing on years of experience working with heritage sheep and fiber processing. Her...

Liv Virta-Meyer is a polymath whose interests in farming, the arts and sustainability led her to create the 5th Business Farm Traceable Leather Program at Pergamena, a New York based, family run, sustainable tannery. She spends her days collaborating with farmers and intentional makers on projects a...

Liza Q. Wirtz, better known as Q (aka the Chief Feline), runs multifaceted fiber-arts business The Foldout Cat from her home studio in Alabama with the frequent and welcome assistance of partners Fiber J and Maker J and the help of a fluctuating number of cats. Q has been weaving in a freestyle/free...

Luis Macia is an accomplished artist originally from New York City. He has exhibited in group and solo shows in New York City and around the Hudson Valley. Luis works in a variety of mediums including oils, watercolor, pastels, and several printmaking techniques including etching, lithography and so...

Lyn Slade is a needle felting artist, author, teacher and innovator. She’s continuously experimenting to find new ways to combine needle felting with other art mediums. Her newest obsession is mixing up needle felting with gelli plate mono prints. Her artwork is exhibited in solo and group exhibitio...

Since 1991, Pinwheels has been synonymous with its founder and owner, Maria Tamaoka, whose passion for quilting and Japanese textiles has made the business a trusted destination for quilters worldwide. Pinwheels specializes in premium Japanese Taupe fabrics, combining prints and yarn dye fabrics in ...

I made my first basket late one afternoon in 1988 after a very challenging day as an elementary teacher…it was a disaster! However, I found this craft engaging and therapeutic...that’s how a now over thirty-five-year relationship with basketmaking began. I have increased my skills and love for baske...

MaryBeth has taught knitting at all levels for more than 20 years, primarily in Ithaca NY. With patience and humor, she excels in teaching Continental method to Beginners (or to experienced knitters who wish to knit “both ways”). With a degree in textiles and clothing, she brings fiber facts, patter...

Mary Jeanne Packer founded Battenkill Fibers in Greenwich, NY in 2009 to provide value-added, custom carding and spinning services for farmers; and to manufacture yarn for wholesale and retail markets. In 2023, two employees joined MJ as business partners; and together they have built a business tha...

A transplant from the beaches and desert of California and Arizona, Michelle Adams is a New York-based artist and event consultant. Her art practice as The Wreath Forager focuses on foraging and growing materials to shape into botanical pieces, using a range of techniques—including pressing, natural...

Nancy is a life long fiber aficionado and cannot remember a time when she hasn't had a needle and some sort of fiber in hand. A dairy goat farmer and soap maker from Granby, Connecticut, her journey into felting began with wet felting soap her soaps and then needle felting sheep on them to persuade ...

Known as the “Decorating Diva” Pam learned early in life, while spending time on her grandparents’ farm, that making something from “scratch” was not only a way of life but it was the better way of doing things. Holding on to those values she went from farm to fabric and has had a very successful 35...

Raheli Harper has been mending clothes since she was 14 years old and thought patches would look rad on her denim overalls. Primarily self-taught, she honed her mending skills in the advanced practical course of raising two active boys and farming. Raheli has served as a Repair Coach at the Warwick ...

A lifelong woodworker and small business owner, Henry has been building fiber art equipment for almost 50 years and drum carders for over 40 years. Roy grew up working in his family’s woodshop and is the president of Lambtown Festival, the largest sheep and wool show in California. Together they...

My name is Shelagh (sounds like Shay-la) and I am the one-woman-show behind Stuart Moores Textiles (Stuart was my great-grandfather, you can read about our story on the SMT website). I am a textile artist and professional natural dyer, specializing in traditional natural dyes and dye techniques. ...

Sue Muldoon divides her time between 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional work. She bounces back and forth between photography, web design and graphic design to seatweaving (chair caning, wicker repair, rush, splint, etc.) and basket weaving. Basketry started as an add-on to seat weaving because there...

Suzanne O'Brien is the owner and creator of ZanieCrafts, Handmade Fiber Art since 2013. She is a juried Roycroft Artisan and a member of the Roycrofters-At-Large Association, and a juried artist member of the Arts and Craftsmen Guild on the Roycroft Campus in East Aurora, NY. She has won several pri...

Terri Martin has over a decade of experience working in the fashion industry as a designer and trend forecaster. After hand knitting for several years she learned to machine knit while studying fashion design and fell in love with the limitless possibilities. She has been selling original designs an...

Tracy Seamster has been stabbing her own index finger with felting needles for many years. She also enjoys spinning, knitting and designing socks, and other fibery activities. Tracy lives in Vermont.

Wendy G. Jensen is an award winning professional basketmaker living in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. She teaches workshops at many museums, crafts schools and conventions as well as in her own studio. Her work can also be seen at several juried craft shows and gallery exhibits around the ...