Agy Lee

Embellish & Mend: Broderie Anglaise for Creative Repairs

Agatha ‘Agy’ Lee, a textile artist, delicately portrays nature's fragility in her work, inviting her audience to slow down and reconnect with the art of observation. Using free-motion embroidery and hand stitch, she weaves threads to capture the "invisible" wonders of nature like corals, weeds, and moss. These pieces are a reflection of her surroundings, breathing life into the beauty and challenges faced by our environment today.

In her first solo exhibition, “Hues of Loss” 2023, Agy's textile-based creations shed light on the alarming decline of coral reefs, highlighting the urgent need for action.

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Amanda Trought

Stitched Words

Amanda is a mixed media artist and loves working with fabric, natural fibers, eco dyeing and slow stitching. She loves looking at the ways in which creativity can impact positively on our health and well-being and finding ways in which creativity can have a therapeutic effect through participation. She exhibits her artwork in a variety of exhibitions around the UK and the Caribbean and also teaches exploration into the creative process on her course platform, and on her YouTube channel.

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Amy Maricle

Beginner Paper Cut: Cracked Egg Tutorial

Amy Maricle is an artist, art therapist, and author who is fascinated by the connections between nature and art. In her classes in art journaling, painting, bookmaking, and paper cutting, she teaches students to slow down and co-create with nature, using a playful creative process to find more joy and meaning. She is the author of Draw Yourself Calm: Draw Slow, Stress Less and her art and writing have been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times.com, The Times London, The Washington Post.com, Psych Central.com, Spirituality & Health Online, and Art Journaling Magazine.

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Brooke Henry

Hand Stitched Removable Notebook Cover

 Brooke has always felt a deep-rooted need to be creative and to work with her hands. This drive has manifested in many forms over the years and it all started with an origin in sewing and quilting. Her interests expanded quickly to include any medium she could get her hands on. Through years of exploration and returning to child-like play, she has found her home in mixed media art journaling. She specializes in finding ways to bring more texture into artwork by using textiles and intuitive stitching all while combining techniques and elements that don’t “go together.”

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Cindy Gilstrap

Playful Mixed Media & Stitched Floral

Cindy Gilstrap, with Cici & Company Studio, is a mixed media artist with a love for bright colors, quirky design, and anything vintage. She believes creative play is such a gift to give yourself and loves inspiring students to just play and enjoy the creative process. She loves combining her bright colors, especially pink and orange, with vintage items to give them new life. You will find combinations of vintage elements, fabric, stitching, and paint in Cindy’s work. She loves spreading joy with her art and her quirky style often extends to her outfits and her decorating style.

Cindy lives in Dallas, Texas with her hubby, 3 dogs, and feels blessed to have her grown kids and extended family close by. She teaches online and in person art journal classes and loves collaborating with other artists.

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Clare Bullock

Wet Felting Project

Clare is a Feltmaker from the UK and has been a textile artist for over 20 years. She specializes in a range of textile techniques, one of which being Nuno felting. Felt is always at the core of her making.

Throughout her creative journey, she has explored a wide range of art styles, including feltmaking, dressmaking, mixed media, embroidery, and dyeing fabrics and thread.

She enjoys combining felt and mixed media together, of course, adding a little bit of stitching. She finds her inspiration for her work from her moods.

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Clarissa Grandi

Drawing and Stitching Curves of Pursuit

Clarissa is a geometric artist, author, and experienced teacher. First and foremost an educator, her passion is introducing beginner artists to the truly accessible art of geometry. She delights in sharing her ideas, materials, and techniques with others, and her background in mathematics teaching enables her to demonstrate and explain difficult concepts simply and clearly. In her own artmaking she enjoys exploring the interplay between the precision of human-made geometry and the more organic and chaotic geometries and symmetries found in nature. She often includes paper stitching in her work, where it complements and enhances the geometry of her mixed media pieces.

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Darcy Hunter

Intuitively Hand-Stitched Naturescape

Darcy Hunter, a quilt artist from Fredericton, New Brunswick, creates representational textile art inspired by her profound love for the natural world. She creates original art landscape wall hangings with fabric and stitch, using her sewing machine as her paint brush. Darcy's pieces embody the color, movement, and essence of her surroundings and have been in juried exhibitions nationwide.

Utilizing her teaching background, she leads workshops, speaking engagements, and has numerous magazine publications. Actively pursuing growth, she engages in residencies, attains grants, and has completed impactful projects like "Connecting to the Environment Through Art" with elementary students. A juried member of Craft NB and Regional Co-Rep of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Darcy's art graces collections across North America.

To learn more about Darcy and her art process, please visit www.darcyhunterart.com and follow along on Instagram (@darcyhunter.art) and Facebook (Darcy Hunter Art). You can also find her on YouTube (Darcy Hunter Art), where you can find lots of free tips and tutorials. She appreciates you supporting her dream and would love to hear from you ([email protected]) if you have any questions, or you would just like to say hello!

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Deanne Fitzpatrick

Do You Want to Learn How to Hook Rugs with Deanne Fitzpatrick?

Deanne Fitzpatrick has created a magical world of colour and texture at her charming studio in beautiful Amherst, NS.

Her weekly Sunday Letters about art, life and rug hooking take a deep reflective look at an artist’s life. She is dedicated to making rugs that are unmistakably art and to helping others do the same through her online teaching. 

Deanne has written eight books about rug hooking and illustrated a children’s book, and has solo exhibitions in public galleries.

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Ellie Fisher

Woven Cuff

Ellie is a textile designer, educator, and published author, with a BA and MA specialising in woven textiles from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
Alongside her mother Claudia, a natural dyer, their business 'Elka' has a strong focus on sustainability and mental wellbeing.

Offering award winning, self-paced, online courses and in-person workshops, Ellie is passionate about sharing her love of textiles and sixteen years of weaving experience through teaching.

She especially enjoys demonstrating how little financial investment is needed to get huge enjoyment from this mindful craft, and encourages anyone that labels themselves as ‘not creative’ to give weaving a go, focus on the practical elements, and enjoy what follows.

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Karen Lewis

Couching Coaster

Karen was born and brought up in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK where she learned to sew and knit with her grandmother. Several years later, after turning her back on her formal education and teaching career, she came back to her crafting roots.

Karen always had a passion for textiles and after a brief screen printing course, she set about teaching herself more about this technique in order to design her own fabric. She incorporated this into her quilting, where she has a particular love for mindful hand piecing and hand quilting.

Karen loves to teach and is one third of the UK based The Thread House with Jo Avery and Lynne Goldsworthy, incorporating idyllic rural retreats and an online learning Academy.

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Kasia Jacquot

Embroider a Simple Botanical Journal Cover and Decorate Its Pages

Kasia's uniquely relaxed and imperfect style of embroidery is a welcome relief for her students and followers. Her blend of contemporary design (from her professional background as a Graphic Designer) and the love of her Polish heritage and its colourful folk patterns, gives birth to joyful and bold embroidery patterns. Kasia is a strong proponent of using the beautiful and precious things we own and as such encourages and guides students to make usable items out of their finished (and even unfinished) pieces. Her embroidery work has been seen on film and television and her largest ever commission was a hand embroidered bed spread for Nicole Kidmans character in "Nine Perfect Strangers".

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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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Kiala Givehand

Fun & Functional Fabric Books - Part 2

Kiala Givehand is a multi-passionate creative, bookbinder, printmaker, published poet, fountain pen collector, and road trip warrior who finds inspiration in astrology, sacred geometry, mandalas, archetypes, and storytelling. She believes in the power of the human spirit, the potency of attuning to the moon, and the importance of penning your thoughts to unlock your fullest potential. She lives a life intent on cultivating happiness and, along with her husband Damon, is the co-creator of the Sacred Makers Soul Retreat @ Squam Lake and The LifeAlchemy Academy™. Kiala guides women from all over the world through creative & spiritual awakenings and teaches them to find what makes them happy and pursue it without regrets. She is on a mission to help people gather their ideas, images, and stories in order to understand themselves better and deepen their relationship with the most Divine parts of their Soul.

Kiala is the creator of the Mixed Media Inspiration Deck™, the visionary behind Pull Pen Paint™, the hands that created The Book-in-a-Day YouTube series, a SoulCollage® Facilitator & Trainer, a Cave Canem Fellow, and a Voices of Our Nations (VONA) alum. Her current creative obsessions include slow stitching, learning to quilt, and exploring the intersections between fabric, thread, paper, pattern, and memories. Follow her shenanigans on Instagram -- @kialagives.

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Laura Edgar

Bumble Bee Textile Art Workshop

Laura Edgar is an artist and tutor who works in the medium of textiles. Inspired by her local environment, a sense of place and the emotive power of nature, she explores an eclectic mix of vintage textiles, recycled clothing, paint, and embroidery to create original artworks, prints and cards and leads textile art workshops.

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Manon Klerks

Beginner Embroidery Workshop

In the midst of the pandemic, Manon was desperate to find a new hobby. She picked up embroidery for the first time, and a new obsession was born! She soon started making her own patterns, and at the end of 2021 she opened the doors to her own shop: threading the seasons. Her mission is to bring calm and peace to everyday life.

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Paula MacGregor

Calico Cottages: An Interactive Slow Stitch Book

Paula MacGregor is a passionate artist and visual storyteller living on an old farm in the South East of Essex, UK, surrounded by trees, water and wildlife. Her art is deeply inspired by nature and the quiet rhythms of rural life. Specialising in Slow Stitch Books, Paula creates intricate, hand-stitched works that blend creativity, mindfulness, and sustainability.

Paula founded Slow Stitch School, a vibrant community where women from around the world connect through the mindful practice of slow stitching. The school offers a range of online tutorials and workshops, from uniquely bound books to wearable art and wall pieces.

Paula’s work is driven by a commitment to eco-friendly practices and the belief that art should be both meaningful and accessible. Her projects, including the global ‘Stain and Stitch Scroll Challenge,’ invite participants to slow down, create, and connect deeply with their craft, whilst connecting with fellow stitchers from around the world.

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Rebecca Ringquist

ABC Embroidery Sampler

Rebecca Ringquist is a Portland-based visual artist and designer. She learned how to embroider in college in a feminist art history class, and has been inspired by the history of American needlework ever since. Approaching the technique of embroidery as a way of drawing, Ringquist has taught hundreds of people new ways of making marks on fabric through classes and workshops around the country. Her design company, Dropcloth Embroidery, sells Ringquist’s hand-drawn designs that are printed as embroidery patterns, all ready to hoop and sew. She teaches, lectures and exhibits nationally. Her first book, Rebecca Ringquist's Embroidery Workshops, A Bend the Rules Primer, published by STC Craft/Melanie Falick Books is available now wherever books are sold.

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Rebekah Johnston

Found Shapes Patchwork

Rebekah Johnston is a textile artist and educator from Nottingham, UK. Her art intertwines artistic self-discovery, sustainability, and the meditative practice of hand stitching. Embracing the unhurried rhythm of her craft, she finds solace and introspection in the deliberate act of slow stitching, allowing her thoughts to settle and reflect.

Her inspiration stems from discarded scraps and garment offcuts, which she transforms into quilts and wall hangings. With meticulous attention, she pieces together unconventional shapes, balancing positive and negative space to create harmonious compositions. Each shape is thoughtfully placed, resulting in a new visual arrangement that tells hidden narratives.

Through her workshops, Rebekah extends an invitation for others to experience the same meditative calm and self-reflection. She encourages participants to embrace slowness, appreciate the beauty in discarded materials, and foster a mindful connection between their hands, mind, and creative spirit.

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String Theories Fiber Design

Create a 'Blushing' Rose & Rosebud: 3D Macrame for Beginners 

Mikaela has been creating macrame artwork since 2017. Her work has evolved through the years, starting out with boho traditional wall hangings, and now morphing into sculptural 3D work. She started teaching through videos and patterns in 2022 and is loving the new phase for String Theories! She's so excited to connect with all of you via this brand new video tutorial. 

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