Agy Lee

Broderie Anglaise Scalloped Coasters

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. Agy was also a spotlighted artist at the 2025 edition of the Affordable Art Fair Singapore.

Beyond her art, Agy conducts regular workshops both online and in person. Her work has been featured in Patchwork Professional, Tatler Singapore, Her World, and The Straits Times Singapore. Discover more about her at www.agytextileartist.com.

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Ali Baecker

Seeing Patterns: From Observation to Creation - Turning Everyday Patterns into Your Own Designs

Ali Baecker is a self-taught printmaker and pattern designer based in Switzerland. Through the art of block printing, she explores the beauty of patterns and surface design. Each piece begins with the slow, meditative process of hand-carving blocks and comes to life as she builds prints – one impression at a time.
Inspired by daydreams of the sea and everyday adventures, Ali creates under her brand 3 Dotted Penguins, where she explores tessellating shapes and surface design. She shares her passion through her Repeat Patterns Deep Dive course, helping students discover the joy of block printing and creating their own repeat patterns.

When she’s not carving, playing with patterns or teaching, you’ll find her exploring the world with her family, sipping green tea, or playing a good board game.

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Ann Smith

Stitching a Fabric Scrap Owl Sachet

Ann is a textile artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As a child, like many textile artists of her generation, she learned hand sewing techniques from her mother and grandmother as she helped tackle the family mending pile.

An avid bird-watcher and gardener, Ann finds her creative inspiration in nature and sustainability. She is known for her appliqué and hand-stitched bird portraits inspired by birds she watches in her garden and encounters on her travels. She uses upcycled and repurposed materials exclusively in all of her appliqué work. She's been collecting vintage fabric since her teenage years, so she's well equipped for the task!

Ann has been featured in publications such as What Women Create and hosts occasional workshops in her home. She is delighted to be back at Making Zen again -- one of her favorite events of the year.

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Barbie Mitchell

Soulful Quilt Making

International tutor, designer, and maker Barbie Mitchel creates at the intersection of modern design and slow-living philosophy. Drawing inspiration from her off-grid lifestyle, Barbie’s work is rooted in intentionality and the meditative rhythm of hand stitching. She is known for reimagining traditional techniques to create vibrant, modern quilts with a fresh and soulful energy. Whether designing new patterns or teaching across the globe, Barbie’s mission is to help makers unplug and rediscover the quiet, restorative joy found in every deliberate stitch.

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Betz White

Embroidered Bug Bookmarks

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

Yunomi Pincushion

Blair Stocker is the quilt designer, author, and educator behind Wise Craft Handmade. With a background in apparel design and fashion merchandising, she brings an eye for color, pattern, and creative reuse to everything she teaches. In addition to her scrappy, color value quilting designs, Blair has become known for reviving Chicken Scratch embroidery, a Depression-era gingham technique she reimagines through playful color, modern grids, and accessible stitch patterns for today’s makers. This technique allows hand stitchers of all levels to slow down, experiment, and discover how simple hand stitches can turn everyday cloth into personal, meaningful textile art.

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Casey Turner

Art Journaling: Bouquet of Emotion

Casey is a self taught mixed media artist who fell in love with art journaling as a healthy outlet for releasing emotion during a time of grieving in her life. She enjoys teaching others how to art journal as well as how to incorporate their faith into their creative practice. She teaches classes online and hosts Christian art journaling retreats around the Unites States. She has taught for courses like Wanderlust, Get Messy, Flowers Magic Art Fest and more. She lives in the peaceful countryside of a tiny little no where town in Pennsylvania with her husband and children. 

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Claire Voelkel-Sedlmeir

Wishing Houses

Claire Voelkel-Sedlmeir is a textile artist whose practice centers on sentimental stitching, thoughtful repurposing, and the beauty in seeing the hand of the maker. Her inspiration comes from stories waiting to be told and messages that deserve to be shared. Her commitment to sustainability is not only mindful of the fragility of our world, but of the wealth of story and meaning infused into repurposed clothing and textiles. She believes in the power of creative practice and is committed to thoughtful gift giving and the potential of tiny offerings. 

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Debasree Dey

Layers of Light: Transforming Fabric Scraps into a Stitched Fabric Collage

Debasree Dey is an intuitive mixed media artist and educator from India, known for her love of textures, layers and vintage-inspired, earthy colour palettes. A former IT engineer, she left the corporate world to follow a more tactile and expressive creative path.

Collage is an important part of Debasree’s practice. She works with layered papers along with fabrics and stitched elements to add depth and texture to her art journals and mixed-media pieces.

Inspired by nature, travel, and everyday surfaces, her work reflects a slowing down and a willingness to let materials lead. Since 2016, Debasree has taught nearly 20,000 students worldwide, encouraging artists to trust their intuition, work with what they have, and create fearlessly.

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DeeDee Catron

Claimed Scraps

DeeDee is a mixed media artist with a flair towards vintage ephemera collage, mark making & creative reuse. She can be recognized for her enthusiasm in all things black and white, with some neutrals thrown in for good measure. Whether it's with paper, fibers or other, she is an avid teacher and instructor and loves a great live demo! DeeDee is always on board to showcase supplies from her online mixed media shop, UmWowStudio. She enjoys the challenge of product design work, creating unique items for other artists to use, as well as curating vintage items & creative kits.

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Ellie Beck | Petalplum

Textile Vessels

Ellie Beck is a textile artist working in an instinctual and improvisational manner; process is an important part of her work. She uses naturally dyed, vintage, upcycled, and antique Japanese or Indian fabrics, and honours the story of her materials. The mindful process of slow stitching allows Ellie to express her quiet, slow life, to explore motherhood, grief, and small simple moments.

While improv quilting, slow stitching, and botanical dye form the basis of Ellie’s work, she doesn’t limit herself to one particular outlet. Writing, photography, painting, other textile crafts merge together in her days of making and creativity. A project takes its own form; a conversation between materials, moments, and possibilities – the ‘what if’ of exploring ideas.
Ellie lives and works in the rainforest, often at her kitchen table or garden studio, in Northern NSW, Australia. She works under the name Petalplum.

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Emma Freeman

Make a Slow Stitched Dish Towel Wall Hanging

Emma Freeman is a contemplative mixed media artist and passionate art teacher who loves slow stitching, old textiles, gathered nature, poetry and intuitive mark making. She currently loves making fabric books, prayer flags, art journals, wall hangings and clothing she adds her slow stitching to. Her art practice focuses on weaving mindfulness and meditation into everything she creates which helps her feel peace, calm and joy. She’s inspired by the Japanese wabi sabi philosophy, rustic, weathered materials, beautiful colors and textures and authentic, heartfelt stories. She loves connecting with people through creativity and teaches classes and retreats online and in person. She is also sober, a Highly Sensitive Person and Buddhist. She lives in Wisconsin in the United States with her wonderful family. 

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Erin Eggenburg

Darning with Style: Learn to Weave a Graded-Square Patch

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 classes are a gateway to learning an appreciation for hand-crafting, empowering students to create and mend with confidence and creativity.

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Giovanna Zara

The Stitcher’s Pocket Companion

Giovanna Zara, GiogioCraft on the web, is a Mixed Media artist who lives in sunny Sardinia, Italy.
She started as scrapbooker many years ago and then discovered Mixed Media 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 re-use and upcycle as much as possible.

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Helen Moyes

Darning with Style: Learn to Weave a Graded-Square Patch

Helen started creating at an early age and went on to study applied textiles and become a qualified trainer. Her practice has an emphasis on upcycling and the use of innovative textile art materials and techniques. She embraces hand and free machine embroidery, wet and dry needle felting, surface fabric design and embellishment.

Helen runs regular Creative Mixed Media Workshops at her own studio, and she also travels to groups and events. She gives inspirational talks, produces on-demand digital guidance, posts blogs and makes kits for you to get creative at home.

Helen aims to bring some peace and play to our everyday! Whether that is by bringing you a crafted card/gift or a kit/workshop.

“I love to pass on mixed media and creative stitch skills to others, encouraging play and experimentation. The process of trying new ideas and creativity truly enhances our well-being.”

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Jen Strauser

Freeform Florals

Jen Strauser is a textile artist living in Southwest Florida.

The quilting bug bit her in 1999, when she started watching Simply Quilts. Inspired by 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. 

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Jeri Bellini

The Living Line: Marking Days with Dots

Jeri likes to say she’s been creating her whole life — from sewing and textiles as a young girl to mixed media and fiber arts using old and discarded materials. A former bead shop owner and lifelong teacher, Jeri has spent years sharing her love of making through classes, community, and creative encouragement. Today, she focuses on intuitive, process-based creating that emphasizes texture, layering, and simple stitching. Jeri inspires others to keep moving, just play, follow no rules, and create something new from old — with curiosity, mindfulness, and gratitude always at the center.

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Kate Ward

Sashiko-Style Coin 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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Liz Haywood

Sew a Jersey Knit Top, Using a Tessellating Pattern

Liz Haywood is a former fashion industry patternmaker who enjoys home sewing and making things. She makes zero waste patterns for the home sewing world, and is the author of The Dressmaker's Companion, Zero Waste Sewing, A Year of Zero Waste Sewing, and the sewing & fashion blog The Craft of Clothes.

Liz lives in country Australia with her family.

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Liz Kettle

Vintage Collage Accordion Book

Liz Kettle 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 was a part of their daily experience. Liz is passionate about teaching others the joy of making and 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. Her newest endeavor is Wilding Creativity, a podcast about living a creative life.

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Liza Laird

Spiritual Practices for Makers

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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Lucy Thomasin Morrish

The Gilded Quatrefoil: Painting a Medieval Treasure

Lucy is an artist devoted to the practice of illuminated manuscripts, drawing inspiration from the rich symbolism and sacred storytelling of Medieval Europe and the Arthurian legends. She trained at The King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London, completing her Master’s degree as an A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholar.

Her work is rooted in traditional methods: grinding mineral and earth pigments by hand, painting on calfskin vellum, and laying 24-carat gold leaf using time-honoured gilding techniques. Through her teaching, Lucy seeks not only to pass on these historic skills, but also to nurture patience, courage and creative confidence in her students.

She lives and works in Nottinghamshire with her partner and their dog, Atticus, balancing an active studio practice with her teaching and mentorship.

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Megan Levacy

Make A Cathedral Square Pendant

Megan Levacy has always liked to make things, particularly all things mixed media and collage with an emphasis on fiber arts like sewing, quilting, and embroidery. Megan shares the things she makes in her Instagram (@mlevacy) and studio process blog “Cry The Bird” where she shares projects, free tutorials, reviews of mediums, and bits about her artistic process that others might find helpful. As a mom and a former college art professor, Megan loves to teach all levels of creative enthusiasts and continues to find ways to help others embrace their unique capabilities through arts and crafts.

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Meredith Woolnough

Exploring Negative Space in Design

Meredith Woolnough is a visual artist based in Australia, best known for her intricate, nature-inspired sculptural embroideries. Drawing on patterns and structures found in plants, coral, cells and shells, her work explores balance, connectivity and the delicate tension between strength and fragility in the natural world. Meredith uses a unique freehand embroidery technique with a domestic sewing machine and a fabric that dissolves in water to create complex openwork forms, which are carefully pinned in shadowboxes like preserved specimens. Working at the intersection of art and science, her practice invites close observation and a deeper appreciation of nature’s complexity. Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally, and she also teaches workshops and online courses alongside her studio practice.

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Mirjam Gielen

Embroidering Urchins and Shells with the Ribbed Spiderweb Stitch

Mirjam is a Dutch textile artist creating organic embroidery. She is inspired by nature, especially by its patterns, colours and textures.
Her favourite techniques are embroidery and crochet, often applied intuitively. The stitch process is in many ways an organic process in the slow development of the stitches on the fabric and the way they adapt and respond to their environment (the fabric) and each other.

Sharing her work, process, knowledge and experience with others, through social media and digital platforms is what makes her happy.

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Natalia Olefirenko | Embroidery Art by Nat

Motanka Doll: A Mindful Ukrainian Textile Ritual

Natalia Olefirenko is a Canadian-based artist originally from Ukraine who specializes in beginner-friendly and intermediate embroidery designs. She draws inspiration from nature and folk art, aiming to connect heritage with contemporary expression through stitching. Natalia is best known for her calm, detailed, and beginner-friendly approach to hand embroidery. Natalia creates modern nature-inspired designs and teaches thousands of stitchers through her online tutorials, stitch-alongs, and educational projects.

She is also the founder of a warm and supportive Stitching Club on Patreon, where members stitch together, learn new techniques, and enjoy a sense of creative community. With a strong emphasis on clear instructions and mindful making, Natalia helps stitchers build confidence while enjoying the process. Through mindful embroidery and thoughtful guidance, she encourages others to reconnect with creativity, patience, and quiet joy - one stitch at a time 💜

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Nic Vaughan

Small Stitches, Big Impact: Simple Handwork Upgrades

Nic Vaughan is an Australian quilt pattern designer and the maker behind Craftapalooza Designs. With over two decades of quilting experience, she is known for her love of hand sewing patchwork, hand quilting, applique, and for teaching makers how calming and satisfying stitching by hand can be.

Nic designs patchwork patterns, resources, and tutorials that help beginners and seasoned quilters alike build confidence with hand sewn patchwork, one stitch at a time. Her approach is all about mindful making and “dopamine quilting”, those small glimmers of joy you get while playing with fabric and watching a project come to life.

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Ozden Dora Clow

Water and Line: Watercolour and Stitch

Ozden Dora Clow is a textile artist and educator working with slow stitch, needle lace on paper or cloth. her practice explores flow, memory and emotional tempo through repetitive, meditative gestures. Drawing on various traditions, she creates delicate works that sit between fragility and resilience.

Alongside her studio practice, she teaches locally and internationally, sharing textile making as a space for attention and quiet resistance to speed. her approach values process over product, inviting students into a grounded, reflective relationship with making.

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Pattie Klimek

Make a Japanese Rice Bag (Komebukuro)

Pattie is a profession quilter that has fallen head over heels with Sashiko.  She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California and travels around teaching and reminding sewists about the Joy of Handwork.  She is dedicated to reviving handwork techniques including hand quilting, hand piecing, and hand embroidery. Yes, she makes all her quilts by hand!

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Rakefet Hadar

The Inner Goddess Mandala

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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Rebecca Desnos

Make Your Own Botanical Ink From Flowers

Rebecca Desnos is a natural dye artist, author and educator based in the UK. For over a decade she has explored the colourful world of plant dyes with a particular love for foraging and the healing properties of plants. She often works with homegrown materials and simple kitchen scraps — avocado being her favourite — and has inspired thousands of people to try natural dyeing for themselves. Alongside raising her three children, she creates books, courses and resources that make this craft feel accessible and joyful. Her work is rooted in curiosity, connection to nature and a belief that colour can be deeply nourishing.

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Ruth Woods | Craft School Oz 

Spiral Stitch Basket 

Ruth is an Australian textile artist, basket maker and educator with over 30 years of experience in the arts and crafts sector. She is the founder of Craft School Oz, an online creative school that warmly welcomes anyone curious about exploring fibre, thread and natural materials whether beginning their journey or deepening an existing practice. Ruth is passionate about slow processes stitching, weaving, coiling and working with natural fibres.

Her bestselling book, Finding Form with Fibre, celebrates contemporary basketry and the artists who are reshaping this ancient craft for modern audiences. Through her teaching, Ruth encourages makers to slow down, trust their hands and explore the quiet rhythm of working with thread and fibre.

At the Zen Stitching Retreat she brings warmth, depth of knowledge and a lifelong love of fibre.

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Saima Kaur

Stitching with Colour

Saima is a textile artist and educator specialising in hand embroidery inspired by Indian folk art. She learnt to stitch when she was 12 years old by her Sanskit teacher in India. Saima later used these skills as an adult to create embroideries about her experience of having a disabled daughter.

She has since moved into creating hand embroideries and prints for interiors. Her work has a strong illustrative quality and is steeped in colour and storytelling.

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Selina Ben

Unwritten Folded Treasure Pouch

Selina is a textile artist and mender whose work honours the legacy of cloth, memory, and tradition.

With a background in textile product development, Selina's passion lies in uncovering the stories woven into historical textiles from around the world. Through her hands-on practice with pre-used fabrics, she brings forgotten materials into a new phase of life, bridging the past and present with every stitch.

Selina has taught for Tatter in New York, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Fries Museum, and Crafts Council Nederland. 

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Suiko McCall

The Sacred Stitch Workshop

Suiko's passion is watching people come alive as they re-connect, deepen, and completely release into uninhibited creative expression. She brings her experience as a competitive synchronized swimmer, professional knitter, Zen monk, and lifelong painter to create nourishing containers for empowered transformation. With degrees from Yale University and San Francisco Art Institute, Suiko has shown her paintings in group & solo shows from San Francisco and New York to London and Budapest.

In 2007, she founded the Art Monastery, an international non-profit dedicated to interweaving creativty, spirituality, and community to liberate creatives worldwide. She has published two books and two full-color workbooks, which are translated into 17 languages. Suiko's teaching certifications include Morning Altars (Day Schildkret), Mindfulness Meditation (Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach), and Transformation Hosts International.

Lay-ordained in Soto Zen Buddhism, she lived at Green Dragon Zen Temple on & off for 4 years. Now she lives in San Francisco.

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Tiffany Goff Smith

Little Wanderer

Tiffany is a Mixed Media Artist and the founder of The Ugly Art Club, dedicated to "reimagining what’s possible" through color, texture, and storytelling. Known for her high-energy, risk-taking approach, she shares her expertise through a robust library of online workshops and creative offerings hosted at Southern Gals Designs. Based on the Alabama Gulf Coast, Tiffany is a passionate educator who has filled over 50 handmade art books and is a firm believer in the beauty of turning "trash into treasures."

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Trixi Symonds

Pigleta, Guardian Angela of Needles

Trixi Symonds is an author and softie/stuffie designer. She helps parents and teachers confidently teach kids to sew, even if they’ve never threaded a needle before.

She is the founder of Sew a Softie, a global initiative that has inspired thousands of children to start sewing through simple and creative projects. Trixi creates easy patterns, books, and tutorials that remove the overwhelm from learning to sew. With her friendly guidance, kids discover that they can sew, and adults discover that teaching it can be simple.

Her books include The Zenki Way: A Guide to Designing & Enjoying Your Own Creative Softies and the Sew a Softie Workbook series.

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Victoria Martinez Azaro

Naturally Dyeing Wool using Onion Skins

Victoria Martinez Azaro is the founder of La Creative Mama and a former fashion sustainability lecturer turned online creative educator.

She teaches women how to create color from nature to dye fabrics and yarns, eco print fabrics using leaves and flowers, and sew sustainable clothing with confidence using minimal waste patterns.

Through her simple, step-by-step frameworks, students can skip the confusion and rediscover the joy of slow, mindful making - one plant, one color, and one handmade piece at a time.

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Yasmeen Branton

Mini Floral Hand Applique Wall Hanging

Yasmeen designs and creates sewing patterns, tutorials and runs workshops all through her business Sand & Stars. Yasmeen’s passion is to support other makers to embrace the power and therapeutic benefits of creativity through fabric, needle and thread. She adores all forms of hand sewing but has a particular fondness for needle turn hand applique, which enables her to bring creative ideas to life.  

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