Jennifer Couch
Company: Jenci Location: AKRON, OH Website: www.jencibags.com Bio: Jennifer grew up in a small coastal town in Maine and currently lives in Akron Ohio. With a passion for recycling, she creates bags and purses from vintage clothing and upholstery leftovers.
Jennifer Danko
Location: WEAVERVILLE, NC Website: www.jennydanko.com www.etsy.com/shop/JennyDanko Bio: Jennifer graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration. She works both digitally and traditionally to create fun, colorful images on plush toys and cards.
Deborah Fell
Location: URBANA, IL Website: www.deborahfell.com Bio: Deborah Fell is a full time studio artist committed to the quilt medium. Deborah’s art focuses on abstract, organic shapes while using surface treatments such as dyeing and painting fabric, photography and reclaimed materials. Deborah has been a professional educator for over 30 years. Besides teaching at risk high…
Scotty Jones
Company: Urthy Fiber Art Location: KOKOMO, IN Website: www.urthyfiberart.com Bio: At the age of 9, Scotty learned to sew from his grandmother. This began his love of all things vintage and an appreciation for fine craft. In 2020, he began designing his own textiles, pairing his screen prints with his own textile designs. The images…
Kei and Molly
Company: Kei and Molly Textiles Location: ALBUQUERQUE, NM Website: www.keiandmolly.com Bio: Started in 2010, this women owned business hires trained artisans, immigrants, and refugees from around the world, creating screen-printed by hand items like towels, napkins and sponge cloths. The flour sack dish towels can be used for drying dishes, wrapping gifts, covering rising dough,…
Diane Muse
Company: a.MUSE.ing Location: MINNEAPOLIS, MN Bio: Diane creates her own “a-muse-ing”, humorous and retro-graphic artwork to generate screen prints onto shirts, towels, cloth napkins and other useful fabric items. Diane works from her rural home near Sugar Valley, Minnesota.
Mr. Sogs
Artist: JOELLE MEDICI & EMILY DOYLE Company: Mr. Sogs Creatures Location: WOODINVILLE, OH Website: www.mrsogs.com Bio: Joelle Medici and Emily Doyle are the creative minds behind Mr. Sogs Creatures, which was established in 2007. Working together, the sisters dedicate their time to create unique, one of a kind products for kids and adults alike. All…
Ming Mei Jang
Location: WESTERVILLE, OH Bio: Ming Mei considers her life path as zig-zag stitches, swing between art and craft.Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Ming Mei learned techniques and philosophies of sewing from her mother who was a professional seamstress and ran a business from their living room.She came to the United States in 1985 and graduated from…
Olivia’s Kloset
Artist: JENN BUDDIE Location: FINDLAY, OH Website: www.oliviaskloset.org Bio: Jenn and her mother, Eileen, hand and machine sew fun hats, scarves, gloves and puppets using fleece.
Sierra Cole
Location: GRAND RAPIDS, MI Website: www.sierracole.com Bio: Sierra graduated from Michigan State University in 2000 with a bachelor of fine art degree. She started felting in 2001 and has participated in art shows throughout the midwest. Sierra’s felted-wool dryer balls are a natural alternative to dryer sheets.
Jeanne Scannell
Location: NEWBURG, PA Website: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT6eqVOKy-w Bio: Jeanne has been creating fiber art pieces for over 40 years. Her cowl neck scarves are easy to wear and can be worn in multiple ways. Hand wash or machine wash in a nylon mesh bag and air dry.
Carol Stolte
Location: MARYSVILLE, OH Bio: Carol has explored many fiber techniques, including spinning, weaving, stitching, and papermaking. Her appreciation for nature, however, has drawn her to basketry. Carole’s baskets preserve much of nature’s plant life; vines, flax, beads, wire, porcupine quills, pine needles, broom sedge, willow, honeysuckle and bark. Each fiber suggests a form, and it…
Rough & Tumble
Artist: WENDY PATUS Location: SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, PA Website: www.roughandtumblevintage.com Bio: Rough and Tumble Vintage started in 2010 making and selling their tie-dyed creations at shows across the country. 75% of the materials used are eco-friendly.
Heidi Wineland
Company: Kitty Allen Location: Lakewood, FL Website: www.heidiwineland.com Bio: Heidi enjoys transforming ordinary materials, scraps and discarded objects into treasures to use and wear. Wool sweaters become Knitagains. T-shirts become Bagmen. Cotton cord and cloth, colorful rag baskets. In addition to making fun and lovely items, she enjoys teaching others to do the same. Many…
Karen Zimmerman
Location: Smyrna, GA
Linda Zoundas
Location: Columbus, OH Bio: An interior designer formerly for Lazarus, Linda makes gloves, hats and scarves using recycled wool sweaters.
Kathie Roig
Location: DUBLIN, OH Website: www.kmrhandwoven.com Bio: Kathie started weaving in 1980, after her husband gave her a small table loom as a wedding present. Nearly 30 years later, she is still weaving, although she now weaves on several different looms, including a Swedish drawloom, which allows her to create original woven designs.
Beth Schillig
Location: GAHANNA, OH Website: www.bethschillig.com Bio: Fabrics, threads and sewing machines have always been a big part of Beth’s life. She owned a successful Bernina sewing machine dealership for nearly 25 years and is now a full time studio artist. She enjoys combining her extensive sewing machine knowledge, free motion-quilting skills, and one-of-a-kind, hand-dyed fabrics…
Cynthia Catlin
Company: Agape Quilts Location: BEAVERCREEK, OH Bio: A fiber artist, Cynthia is inspired by lots of color and ethnic textiles. She combines many techniques such as patchwork, embroidery, appliqué, painting, quilting and beading to create functional pieces and wall art.
Ohio Drip
Ohio Drip by Kelsey Danley