Andrea Tsang Jackson

Colouring with Your Scraps

Andrea Tsang Jackson is a textile artist and quilt designer. After working in various design fields and settings ranging from architecture to museums, the quilting medium called to her. With her art, Andrea strives to push the limits of the quilting medium by exploring scale and dimension and moving traditionally domestic objects into the public realm. Her work often celebrates community and collaboration, and explores ideas of belonging. The rich history of quilting also heavily influences her practice; she sees it as an extension of community across time. Andrea has written two books: Gemology and her newest Quilting: A Modern Creative Journey through an Age-Old Craft was released in February 2025. Andrea lives in Kjipuktuk / Halifax, Nova Scotia with her husband and two sons.

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Ann Smith

Stitching a Fabric Scrap Hummingbird

Ann lives with her husband in the South San Francisco Bay Area at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Her textile art draws inspiration from nature with an emphasis on upcycling and reuse. She's drawn to the meditative qualities of sewing slowly by hand -- with a jumble of fabric scraps and vintage notions at the ready, and no preconceived destination in mind. This is where the creative magic happens for her, with its soul-nourishing flow. And when she's not stitching or exploring new artistic techniques, you'll find Ann in her garden -- listening to the birds sing and gathering inspiration for her next creative adventure.

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Betz White

Mend and Embellish with Needle Felting and Embroidery

For 20 years Betz White has been sharing her creativity online. Betz specializes in a unique offering of playful patterns, curated kits, and online classes for the modern maker. Betz is the author of three popular sewing and crafting books and has been featured on the Martha Stewart Show and in a variety of magazines such as Country Living, Where Women Create, and Vogue Patterns.

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Blair Stocker

Chicken Scratch Embroidered Needlebook

Blair is a textile artist and quiltmaker based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She designs scrappy patchwork quilts, with her favorite ones filled with meaningful fabrics. She has written 2 books and these days teaches her techniques both in person and online. In a desire to add more hand stitching to her studio practice a few years ago, she stumbled upon the vintage technique of Chicken Scratch embroidery, and has been obsessed ever since. Happily, it’s how she ends almost every day.

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Casey Turner

Journals Into Jewelry

Casey is a lifelong creative, living in Pennsylvania who discovered art journaling during a time of grief. She found it to be a way of emotional release, a healthy outlet for the day to day stuff that life brings.  As a busy mom, this form of creativity became a lifeline. She loves thrifting, decorating her home, and all things vintage. She teaches online courses, hosts in person faith based art journaling retreats and just wants to shout from the rooftops of the benefit of art journaling and mixed media for one’s health and well-being. 

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Ellie Beck

Botanically dyed silk & felt project pouch

Ellie Beck is a textile artist, author, photographer, and creative maker. She works in an intuitive way, allowing process a guide along her journey of listening to her own stories.

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Emma Freeman

Deepening Your Creative Practice with Oracle Cards

Emma Freeman is an artist, soul writer, Reiki therapist, intuitive medium, and teacher who finds the sacred in the everyday. She embraces the healing powers of slowness, silence, deep connections and creativity. Her own journey through healing and self-discovery inspires her to help others connect with their truest selves.

Sensitive, curious, and playful, Emma weaves spirit and artistry into all she does. She is sober, an animal lover, and part of the LGBTQ community. She lives in Wisconsin with her wonderful family.

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Erin Eggenburg

Chance & Choice Embroidery

Erin Eggenburg is a devoted crafter and educator with a heart for fostering creativity and sustainability through textile art. She is the founder of an online mending and embroidery shop, wrenbirdarts, and author of The Mending Directory. Erin's patterns are a gateway to learning an appreciation for hand-crafting, empowering folks to create with confidence and creativity.

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Giovanna Zara

Fabric Scraps Funky Bracelet

Giovanna Zara, GiogioCraft on the web, is a Mixed Media artist that she lives in the sunny Sardinia, Italy.

She started as scrapbooker many years ago and then discovered MixedMedia and upcycling. A paper lover at heart with a soft spot for fabric, she had an epiphany in 2021 when she attended an on-line workshop about slow stitching. From then, she never stopped experimenting with dyeing fabric, slow stitching and eco printing. Starting from old bed linen using even the smallest scrap of fabric she creates colourful and vibrant textile work of art, sometimes to wear.

She wrote several e-books about her main craft obsessions, from gel printing to fabric coiled basket and textile jewelry, sharing her enthusiasm to revive old techniques and ru-use and upcycle as much as possible.

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Isabella Strambio

Macrame Butterfly Necklace

Isabella is a macrame artist, mentor, and author known for her contemporary fibre art using natural materials. With four published macrame books and a range of online courses for all skill levels, she is the go-to expert in mastering this ancient craft. Isabella also hosts workshops and retreats, inspiring macrame enthusiasts and fostering creativity.

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Jen Strauser

Mini Landscapes in Fabric and Thread

Jen Strauser is a quilter and teacher. She splits her time between New Jersey and Florida with her two dachshunds, Oscar and CJ, and her family.

The quilting bug bit her in 1999, when she started watching Simply Quilts with Alex Anderson. Much like the show, she explored a variety of techniques. She loves everything about quilting; the feel of the fabric, watching the little pieces turn into beautiful quilts, but most of all, she loves the texture.

Creating scrappy designs and using up stash are two of her favorite parts of quilting. She is always amazed when she can pull a whole quilt out of the scrap bins and not make a dent in the stash.
Her quilting has won awards at the local and national level. Several magazines have featured her work, and she has students from all around the world.

Recently Jen has fallen in love with Kawandi Style quilting and spends a lot of time hand stitching. You can follow her adventures at Dizzyquilter.com.

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Jessica Swift

Art-making and Your Intuition

As a child, Jessica Swift sported a nearly-permanent Crayola marker stain on her left arm, from pinky to elbow. She grew up and, naturally, became an artist. Jessica creates colorful, uplifting artwork and manufactures her own products in her studio in Portland, Oregon. She also collaborates with inspiring companies and publishers to create branded products such as fabric, stationery, puzzles, books, and more. She's the author of 3 books and teaches online classes on topics including intuitive art-making and pattern design. Two rambunctious, creative young children call her mama. You can find Jessica on her website at jessicaswift.com and follow her on Instagram @‌jessicaswift

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Jody Alexander

Book + Bag

Jody Alexander is a mixed media artist who lives and works in Santa Cruz and Penn Valley, California. She combines textiles, paper, found items and imagery to create books, objects, wall pieces, garments, and installations. Her current work is inspired by the art of repair, reuse, and imagery and stories encountered in her travels and everyday. 

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Karen Turner

Zero-waste stitching

Karen Turner is a mixed media and textile artist in the UK and has been stitching, drawing, and painting for most of her life. She is best known for her intuitive daily stitching practice, a slow and mindful way of stitching by hand to observe and reflect on the passage of time. Much of her work focuses on the circular nature of time, and ways in which past and present co-exist in the form of memory. Her work has been featured in several publications and on websites including Colossal, MyModernMet and the School of Stitched Textiles.

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Kate Ward

Make a Multi-Purpose Pouch!

Kate Ward is an Australian interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator with over twenty years experience working and teaching in the Arts. Her interests include ceramics, jewelry, printmaking, and intermedia, but her heart lies with textile arts, and she’s been stitching avidly for about ten years.

Kate’s been able to combine her love of art with her love of travel, studying and creating all over the world, including participating in an exchange at Kyoto Seika University - a dream for someone with Kate’s fascination and respect for Japanese culture and aesthetics.

Prompted by her passions for textiles, sustainability, and living meaningfully, Kate started focusing on Zen Stitching in 2020. By embracing the beautiful and practical designs of sashiko stitching, Kate is not only mending clothes, but also reducing textile waste and practicing mindfulness.

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Lisa Agaran

Stitching Found Objects

Lisa is a mixed media artist, instructor and Creative Spirit Mentor. She’s passionate about exploring and experimenting with different mediums and materials. Her work has been published in Incite, Dreams Realized: The Best of Mixed Media and Incite 3: The Art of Storytelling (North Light Books). She has shown her work in solo and group shows throughout Southern California. Lisa has been teaching workshops and leading retreats for the last 10 years.

She believes everyone is born with a deep and inherent desire to be creative. The key is staying connected to that creativity as you become an adult. She believes having a creative practice is just as essential as a good night’s rest, exercise, and eating right. It provides benefits both spiritually and mentally. This leads to a sense of inner wholeness and wellbeing. Lisa encourages others not to deprive themselves and to try to do something creative daily. 

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Lisa Goddard

Recycled Fabric Bracelets

Lisa is a mixed media artist and tutor living in the UK. She loves the freedom of mixed media, working in my grungy fashion with paper, fabric, paint, and coffee. She likes to combine acrylics with inks, drawing, collage, and whatever else she finds lying around the house. In recent years, Lisa has discovered the joy of adding different fabrics and slow stitching into her work. She likes to use reclaimed fabrics as she believes every piece has a different story to tell.

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Liz Haywood

Making a Zero-Waste Humpty Dumpty Toy

Liz Haywood is a former industry patternmaker who enjoys home sewing and making things. She worked in factories in Australia and the UK across a wide range of garment types, including bridal, made to measure, uniforms, active wear and fashion ranges. She also taught sewing. She witnessed (and helped create) the volumes of fabric scraps generated by clothing factories, but it was considered so normal no-one ever discussed it, except to ask if it was bin day. 8 years ago she read about zero waste patterncutting, and immediately clicked with it. 4 years ago went hard core and decided to only make zero waste patterns from now on. Liz is the author of The Dressmaker's Companion, Zero Waste Sewing and A Year of Zero Waste Sewing. She lives in country Australia with her family.

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Liz Kettle

Easy Tray Dyeing

Liz adores fabric, stitching, and mixing up her media with whatever is close at hand. She passionately believes that creating and making is the secret sauce that makes a rich, full life, and everyone would be happier if creating were a part of their daily experience. Liz is passionate about teaching others the joy of making and the benefits of the creative process. Liz has been teaching since 2006, when her first book was published. Her classes are designed to have fun, be experimental and make a delicious mess while unearthing your unique artistic voice. In addition to having written multiple books and magazine articles, Liz is the creator of the Stitch Meditation® Process. This process brings together mindfulness and creative experience in a daily practice that reduces stress, relaxes the body, and engages the right brain. 

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Liza Laird

Intentional Knitting: A Bolster Project 

Liza Laird is a knitter, yogi, and mama of three little humans, three alpacas, ten chickens, a giant Angora bunny, and a feisty Shiba Inu. She teaches knitting, yoga, and mindfulness classes and hosts retreats online and worldwide. She is the author of Yoga of Yarn: A Knitter's Handbook for Self-Discovery. She trained as a yoga instructor at YogaWorks, a yoga therapist at Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, and a life coach with Coaches Training Institute. She has a BA in psychology from Lafayette College. 

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Margeaux Davis

Sewing fabric mushroom ornaments

Margeaux is a soft toy designer, doll maker and children's book illustrator living on the far north coast of New South Wales, Australia. Margeaux's soft toys, dolls, and ornaments are made using discarded fabric scraps, old woollen blankets, remnants and worn-out clothing. Many of her designs are available as digital sewing patterns which can be downloaded and made at home. Her designs are inspired by old folk tales, ​children's stories and the natural world. ​

With a professional background in environmental education, Margeaux now spends her days drawing, painting and sewing from a tiny garden studio, surrounded by macadamia nut farms and cow paddocks.

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Mirjam Gielen

Mini felt pumpkin and apple

Mirjam Gielen is a textile artist from the Netherlands. Her main technique is embroidery, which she supplements with crochet and needle lace. She uses organic or reclaimed fabrics and threads that she dyes and prints with plants. Natural colours have a depth and richness that contribute to what she wants to express in her work.
Her inspiration comes from nature, its patterns, colours and textures. Recreating natural phenomena with stitches deepens her understanding of nature and that understanding in turn, nurtures her creativity.

When she is not working on her art pieces, she loves to teach. She is mostly active online, but also teaches live courses at West Dean College, UK.

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Natalia Olefirenko

Embroidered Traditions: Stitch & Assemble a Ukrainian-Inspired Pysanka Egg

Natalia Olefirenko is a Ukrainian embroidery artist behind Embroidery Art by Nat. Now based in Canada, Natalia creates modern hand embroidery patterns inspired by nature, folk art, and meaningful personal stories. She specializes in beginner-friendly designs and guides her community with easy-to-follow video tutorials, stitch-alongs, and detailed illustrations. Her work is rooted in tradition but brought to life with vibrant colors and contemporary touches.

After fleeing the war in Ukraine, Natalia has continued to share her art as a way to bring peace, healing, and creative joy to others. Through her Stitching Club on Patreon and in-person workshops, she’s inspired thousands around the world to discover the therapeutic beauty of traditional hand embroidery. Natalia’s mission is to make hand embroidery accessible, meaningful, and a little magical for everyone.

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Pippa Haynes

Thread Painting: Creating movement in your stitching. 

Established in 2017 by Pippa Lemon Pepper Studio began as an exploration into preserving nature through the medium of thread. Born from a love of the great outdoors, it celebrates both the art of hand embroidery and the magic of nature.

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Rebecca Desnos

Eco-printing on paper

Rebecca Desnos is a natural dye artist, author, and educator based in the southwest of the UK. She specialises in creating colour from wild, foraged, and homegrown plants, and shares her gentle, intuitive approach through books, video classes, and her membership, Natural Dye Club. A mother of three, Rebecca began exploring plant dyes over a decade ago while seeking non-toxic ways to colour fabric. Her work encourages a slower, more mindful way of living—one grounded in creativity and a deeper connection with the natural world. 

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Ruth Woods

Embroidered Arch Cushion

Ruth is based in Australia and is a dedicated and experienced professional in the arts and crafts sector, having devoted over 30 years to teaching in this field. She founded Craft School Oz a decade ago, delivering workshops for individuals to learn and explore their creativity. Ruth expanded her offerings through an online school, offering a variety of workshops focused on basketry and slow stitching. Her latest achievement includes the publication of a best-selling book titled "Finding Form with Fibre," which highlights the work of talented artists and explores different basketry techniques. Ruth has a genuine passion for her art and a commitment to sharing her knowledge to inspire others. 

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Saima Kaur

Phulkaris from Punjab

Saima is a textile artist from Yorkshire, England. Her work has always had its roots in Indian embroidery traditions, mainly the Phulkari embroideries from Punjab. She learnt to stitch at the age of 12 years old in India. After a long break, she began stitching as an adult to express her experience of having a disabled daughter. Since then her work has evolved in both style and content and she uses stitch to create dreamscapes and images that inspire joy and magic.

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Selina Ben

Unwritten Scrap Puzzle Pouch

Selina Ben is a textile artist and mender based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
With a professional background in textile product development, her passion for textiles has existed for as long as she can remember.

Selina is inspired by historical textiles around the world. Her curiosity about why the textiles were significant to a place, what materials were used, and how they were made stimulates her creativity. With her practice, she hopes to preserve disappearing techniques, honor unknown makers and their cultural heritage.

Selina chooses to work with pre-used fabrics. With her hands, needles, and threads, she brings the fabrics to a new phase of their lives so that people can start looking at our relationships with textiles differently.

Selina has taught for Tatter in New York, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, and Crafts Council Nederland. Her practice can be found at her website www.unwrittenstitch.com and Instagram @selinaam05.

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Tiffany Smith

Along beside her

Tiffany Goff Smith is a mixed-media artist passionate about sharing art's impact. She inspires through color, layers, and storytelling, "reimagining what's possible." A risk-taker, she's traveled, creating with artists nationwide. Art saved her, a story she may share. Known for her free spirit and loose style, she's filled 50+ handmade art books. Tiffany treasures hunts in resale shops, recycles, and runs The Ugly Art Club. She lives in the Gulf Coast woods with her husband Josh, 3 dogs, and many cats. Her art is published, and she offers online classes. www.southerngalsdesigns.com IG: Southerngals_designs. 

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Trixi Symonds

Spirit Owls

Trixi Symonds is a softie/stuffie designer and sewing teacher with 30+ years’ experience. Her global movement, Sew a Softie, inspires thousands of children to make and sew softies every year through her Global Kids Sewing Party. She is the author of multiple sewing books including The Zenki Way: A Guide to Designing & Enjoying Your Own Creative Softies (2021), the Sew a Softie Workbook No.1: Kandinsky Inspired Softies to Sew with Kids (2024) and the Sew a Softie Workbook No. 2: Square Zenki Softies to Sew with Kids (2025).

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Victoria Martinez Azaro

Making patch pockets with fabric scraps

Victoria Martinez Azaro, known as La Creative Mama, is a natural dyer, eco printer, creative sewer, and passionate sustainability educator. She is dedicated to empowering others to craft beautiful, unique wardrobes through sustainable practices. With a focus on minimal waste sewing, natural dyeing, eco printing, upcycling, and mending, Victoria guides women in creating personalized clothing that aligns with their style and eco-conscious values. Through her engaging online courses, popular blog, and supportive membership community, Victoria makes sustainable fashion accessible and enjoyable for everyone. Her goal is to help individuals build confidence, reduce their environmental impact, and find joy in mindful creativity. Victoria believes deeply in the transformative power of sustainable crafting, inspiring her students and community to embrace fashion as a form of meaningful self-expression and responsible living.

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Yasmeen Branton

Create your own unique floral hand appliqué pattern, whilst finding calmness in every stitch 

Yasmeen designs and creates hand applique patterns, crafting tutorials and runs workshops all through her business Sand & Stars. Yasmeen’s passion is for everyone to learn how to do needle turn hand applique; to build skills, confidence and enjoy this therapeutic technique whilst creating beautiful projects for themselves or loved ones.

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