Amanda Trought

The Stitched Folk

Amanda Trought is a mixed media artist and educator whose work celebrates texture, transformation, and storytelling through fabric. Drawing on years of creative exploration, Amanda brings a soulful approach to fiber art—merging natural dyes, eco printing, hand stitching, and layering techniques to create tactile narratives that connect art to healing.

As the founder of Realityarts, Amanda teaches globally through online programs, sharing her passion for mixed media, journaling, and textile sculpture and has contributed to programs such as Making Zen, Life Book, Artsy Marathon, and Fodder School. She encourages artists of all levels to embrace imperfection, experiment freely, and find joy in the creative process.

Her award-winning artwork has been exhibited in the UK, Barbados, Montserrat, and the US Virgin Islands.

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Amy Maricle

Fine Line Flowers

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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BB Henry

Textured Snippet Rolls

BB has always felt a deep-rooted need to create and work with her hands. What began with sewing and quilting soon expanded into an endless curiosity for any medium she could explore. Over the years, she’s found her artistic home in mixed media art journaling, blending textiles, paper, and intuitive stitching to add rich texture and depth. She loves experimenting with techniques and materials that don’t traditionally “go together,” embracing creative problem-solving through play. Brooke’s happiest moments are spent sharing her knowledge and guiding others to break through perfectionism, trust their artistic intuition, and create with joy. Her work is fueled by the belief that art is most powerful when it’s personal, playful, and unapologetically your own.

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Clarissa Grandi

Geometric Photo Embroidery

Clarissa is a geometric artist, author, and experienced teacher. First and foremost an educator, her passion is introducing others to the truly accessible art of geometry. She delights in sharing her ideas, materials, and techniques, 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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Cynthia Hauk

Creative Sparks: 5-Minute Art Experiments for Makers

What if just five minutes of mindful art could help you feel calm, inspired, and creatively recharged? Cynthia Hauk is the founder of MindfulCreativeMuse.com. She teaches simple, mindful art practices to help people feel more relaxed, creative, and connected. Her gentle, encouraging style makes it easy to create without pressure or perfection, just curiosity and joy. Through her online workshops, retreats, and teacher training programs, Cynthia has helped thousands of makers and artists around the world find their flow and trust their creative voice again.

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Darcy Hunter

Hand-stitched Red Poppies Artwork with 3D Elements

Darcy Hunter is a quilt artist from New Brunswick, Canada, who creates representational textile art inspired by her deep love of nature. Using her sewing machine as her paintbrush, she layers fabric and stitch to capture the colour, movement, and essence of her surroundings. Her work has been featured in juried exhibitions internationally and collected across North America. Utilizing her teaching background, Darcy shares her passion through workshops, artist talks, and published articles. She actively pursues growth through grants, residencies, and collaborative projects such as Connecting to the Environment Through Art, working with elementary students. A juried member of Craft NB, she continues to explore the natural world through stitch, inviting others to connect with the landscape in new and meaningful ways.

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Deanne Fitzpatrick

Rug Hooking: The Hit and Miss Tradition

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

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Deborah Fisher

Garbage Garlands and Other Garlands

Deborah Fisher is an object and pattern designer, and lifelong maker of handmade things. She is the circus juggler and museum curator behind Fish Museum and Circus, which specializes in charming miscellany for the sewing room, maker’s studio, and the creative home. Deborah’s quirky and colorful style is apparent in all of her designs, from her popular ceramic and wool pincushions, to her unique sewing patterns to her whimsical sewing and yarn themed stickers and notecards. Deborah is also a licensed fabric designer for Windham Fabrics. She lives with her nifty husband, 2 magical daughters, 2 cats, 1 super mutt named Mr. Macaroni Pasta Pants, and some chickens on the north shore of Long Island, NY.

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Donna Davies

Mindful Mandalas in Stitch

Donna is the creative mind and teacher behind Make Your Own Happy, a small business dedicated to inspiring joy and confidence through hand-stitch and embroidery. With a background in teaching and a passion for folk-art-inspired design, she combines her love of textiles with a warm, encouraging approach that helps people reconnect with their creativity. Her thoughtfully designed kits and workshops make traditional techniques feel accessible and enjoyable, even for complete beginners. Through relaxed in-person sessions, seasonal stitch-alongs, and clear video support, she creates space for mindful making—where the process matters just as much as the finished piece. Whether it’s a cosy evening project or a handmade gift, her work celebrates the quiet satisfaction of learning something new and the simple pleasure of making with care.

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Ellie Fisher

Handwoven Charms: Mini Makes for Mindful Moments

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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Heidi Iverson

Mini Button & Loop Pouch

Hi friends, my name is Heidi. I’m originally from the Midwest, where I grew up on a farm near a small town in Northwest Iowa. I studied ceramics, sculpture, and printmaking at the University of South Dakota before moving to Sonoma County in Northern California 20 years ago. I now live on the ancestral lands of the Native American Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo tribes in West Sonoma County in Northern California. I’m an author, textile artist, teacher, natural dye advocate, and founding member of Fibershed (a non-profit organization that develops regional fiber systems that build ecosystem and community health.) I’ve spent the last 15 years living in a tiny redwood forest with my husband, two ridiculous cats, a family of foxes, and a myriad of wildlife.

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Helen Hiebert

Woven Paper Notecards

Helen Hiebert is a Colorado artist who constructs installations, sculptures, films, artists’ books and works in paper using handmade paper as her primary medium. She teaches, lectures and exhibits her work internationally and online, and is the author of the several how-to books about papermaking and papercrafts. Her new book, Weaving With Paper, comes out in December 2025. Helen has an extensive network of paper colleagues around the world and her interest in how things are made (from paper) keeps her up-to-date on current paper trends, which she writes about in her weekly blog called The Sunday Paper. She interviews papermakers and paper artists on her podcast Paper Talk, and she holds an annual paper retreat and papermaking master classes in her Red Cliff studio.

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Isabel Wilder

Wear It Again: Creative Repair with Decorative Stitches

Isabel is an Ecuadorian-American artist, sewing instructor, and maker who loves working with textiles and leather. She started sewing at a young age and has continued designing, sewing, and creating unique pieces ever since. She finds inspiration in nature, travel, vintage fabrics, textures, hand embroidery, and, more recently, the joy of patchwork and quilting. Isabel and her family have lived in Argentina, Vietnam, Ukraine, and Peru, where she immersed herself in different cultures and crafts. As a sewing instructor, she loves inspiring others to sew, create, and bring their ideas to life—believing that teaching is also an opportunity to learn. She usually begins a project by sketching an idea and letting it evolve, which she considers the most fun part of creating. She believes handmade items carry a special energy between the maker and the person who receives them. Her sewing machines and sewing room travel with her wherever she goes—an inspiration behind her brand, Gypsy Tailor.

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Karen Lewis

Snip and Stitch Lavender Bags

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

Karen always had a passion for textiles, pattern and colour and after a brief silkscreen printing course in 2011, 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 printing and quilting in workshops around the UK and overseas and is a regular Faculty member at Quiltcon.

Karen is the author of two books Screen Printing at Home and Wabi Sabi Sewing.

She is one third of the UK based The Thread House with fellow quilt designers Jo Avery and Lynne Goldsworthy, incorporating idyllic rural retreats and an online learning Academy.

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Kasia Jacquot

Embroidered Jeans

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 Kidman's character in "Nine Perfect Strangers".

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Kate Ward

Upcycled Denim Pouch with Sashiko-Inspired Stitching

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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Kelli Anderson

Animated, Mechanical Cards

Graphic designer, educator and author Kelli Anderson has been widely celebrated for her work in infographics, branding design, pop up books and risograph animations. Anderson's previous publications include This Book Is a Camera (MoMA, 2015)—which transforms into a working camera—and This Book Is a Planetarium (Chronicle, 2017), which has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide in two languages. Her new book, Alphabet in Motion will be available in bookstores worldwide on November 18th.

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Kiala Givehand

Stitching the Sacred: Protective Sigils & Personalized Symbols

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 starting a garden, slow stitching, learning to quilt, and exploring the intersections between fabric, thread, paper, pattern, and memories.

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Kira McCoy

Zen Clay and Stitched Mixed Media Mandala

Hi, I’m Kira — an artist, author, and creative explorer passionate about blending mediums and breaking molds (literally and figuratively). I specialize in polymer clay and mixed media art, and I’m the founder of CreateAlong.com, where I design and manufacture unique tools and supplies for makers. I’ve written four international bestselling books on polymer clay jewelry and mixed media, including Polymer Clay Art Jewelry under the name Kira Slye. My newest obsession? Slowing down and stitching beauty into canvas with intention. In this class, I’m combining the tactile magic of polymer clay with the meditative rhythm of hand stitching. It’s grounding, playful, and deeply satisfying. Whether you’re a seasoned maker or just getting started, I’m here to show you how to infuse your creations with heart, personalization, and just a touch of stardust.
Let’s make something magical together.

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Kristin Peterson

The Art of Tiny Treasure: Create a Stitched Amulet Necklace

Kristin Peterson is a third generation artist, originally from South Dakota. She is always exploring and expanding the creative depths of being an artist, which includes stitching and sewing. Kristin comes from a long line of artists and seamstresses. She got her first sewing machine when she was 5 years old. A small Holly Hobby crank machine. And she was mad when she realized the machine didn't come with a pedal. Lol.

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Lauren Weber

Hand Embroidered Rose Earrings

Lauren Weber is the fiber artist behind Garden Girl Studio, where she blends a love of hand-stitching with surface design and quilting. Her embroidered jewelry has become a market-favorite, cherished for its delicate details and wearable artistry. Lauren’s art quilts have been featured in national exhibitions and published in Art Quilting Studio magazine. She is also a teacher on Skillshare, where her fiber art and creative courses have earned “Staff Pick” recognition. With a background in plant science and nearly a decade in the horticulture industry, Lauren often draws inspiration from nature, flowers, and gardens. Through her teaching, she encourages students to slow down, enjoy the process, and create handmade work that feels both joyful and approachable.

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Madge Evers

Cyanotype Printing on Fabric

Madge Evers explores the transformative cycles of dormancy, decay, and ecstatic growth in plant life. She uses the cyanotype process, mushroom spores, bookmaking, and painting to depict both actual landscape details and imagined flora. She has participated in exhibitions throughout New England and attended residencies in New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Ireland. Madge lives and works in western Massachusetts and teaches cyanotype workshops to people of all ages. Her project-based book about the cyanotype process will be published by Storey in 2026.

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Michelle Hamill

Stitched Bird Brooches

Michelle's work reveals her background in mathematics, science and technology. It is inspired by the workings of nature, by walks in the wild high country, and a deep fascination in pattern and geometry in organic forms.

She works with textiles: fabric and thread, old and new as well as wire, glass beads, woollen felt and stuffing. Using a needle and thread she explores traditional needlework techniques in unexpected ways to create texture, pattern and colour.

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Mikaela Szumigraj

Macrame 3D Butterfly Tutorial

Mikaela has been creating macrame since she was a child - but entered the small business world in 2018. Her personal style has evolved over the last few years, most recently transitioning to 3D sculptural pieces. Check out her wide range of DIY macrame patterns & kits, and her two online courses with Domestika!

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Nichole Vogelsinger

Feeling Stabby, Finding Calm: Stitch the Gentle Gourd

Nichole Vogelsinger is a fiber artist, author, and embroidery enthusiast who believes that stitching should be equal parts creativity and chaos (the fun kind!). Her signature style - bold fabric collages bursting with color, texture and lots of beads and sequins - has inspired makers around the world. She’s the author of Boho Embroidery, The Pattern Collection, and Needles Out!, a trio of books that celebrate her vibrant, free-spirited approach to fiber art. Whether she’s teaching online, leading workshops, or sharing tips on YouTube, Nichole’s mission is simple: help you fall wildly in love with needle and thread.

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Paula Hartmann

Paper in Motion: Create a Geometric Mobile

Paula Hartmann is a Canadian artist known for her joyful, kinetic paper sculptures and heartfelt workshops. Self-taught and soul-led, Paula believes creativity is a way back to ourselves. Her work invites play, presence, and personal expression. Through retreats and community spaces, she helps others reconnect with their creative spark—in a way that feels fun, freeing, and deeply human.

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Rafeket Hadar

Fabric Tales: Creating Mini Fabric Visual Journals 

Rakefet Hadar is a creative guide, art therapist, and the heart behind the SoulPages® method — a playful, soulful way to explore life through visual journaling. She’s passionate about helping people discover their inner voice, heal old stories, and bring more color into everyday life. For over a decade, Rakefet has trained facilitators around the world, sharing tools that weave together art, soul, and connection. She believes every page we create is a step toward wholeness — and loves seeing her students grow into confident, inspired leaders.

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Rebekah Johnston

Playful Studies in Shape and Stitch

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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Shannon Fraser

Mini Improv Fiber Art Collage

Shannon is a modern quilt pattern designer and teacher based in Montreal, Canada. What began as a surprise passion has become her creative calling: guiding others to discover the joy of quilting as a form of self-expression. Drawn to bold colors, clean lines, and graphic beauty, Shannon weaves art into every stitch. Her work has been featured in publications like Curated Quilts, Love Patchwork & Quilting, and The Quilter’s Planner, where her fresh perspective stands out. Through her website, Shannon shares free tutorials, thoughtful projects, and an ever-growing library of inspiration — inviting quilters everywhere to slow down, make boldly, and connect with their inner artist.

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Skye Pennant

Microweaves for Darning

Skye is the author of Well Worn; a book all about visible mending with garment led chapters to help you get started. She also runs slow stitch club which aims to share the skills and tools needed to learn how to visibly mend the clothes you love. Focusing on traditional mending techniques such as darning, patching and sashiko, Skye encourages a visible approach to mending that acts as a way to turn your clothing into a wearable scrapbook and help to reduce the amount of clothing sent to landfill.

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