Contributors

Christi York is a mixed-media artist working with mainly sculptural basketry and botanical printing. She has unbounded enthusiasm for working with natural fibres and recycled materials, and an intense curiosity for exploring the natural world in general.
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Holli feels strongly about fine craftsmanship, believing that while there’s more than one right way to do things, it’s important to do it right! To this end, she teaches skills that enable knitters to feel justified pride in their finished projects, while accommodating different knitting styles and preferences. Students leave…
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Michelle Woodvine is a Toronto-based freelance writer and editor on a quest to never stop learning and making. When not wordsmithing for others, Michelle can usually be found working on her trilogy of speculative fiction novels, learning a new skill, or goofing around with her family (including her very own…
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Amanda Wood is a hand weaver, artist, and educator. A graduate of the Capilano University Textile Arts program, and an active member of the Canadian Guild of Weavers, she teaches materials driven workshops in her studio and online at the School of Sweet Georgia. Her workshops are places of exploration,…
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Sandi is a knitter, spinner, and beader, with forays into crochet, weaving, sewing, quilting, and, uh, well... Now a freelance knitting/spinning/crochet/beading writer, teacher, and general craft enabler, she was the founding editor of KnittingDaily.com, and the former managing editor of Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet, and Knitscene magazines.
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Catherine Winter is a freelance writer, herbalist, and fibre enthusiast based in Quebec's Laurentian mountains. When Catherine isn't tending her permaculture garden or working on her Farm the World website, she can be found working on various knitting projects, or experimenting with natural plant dyes.
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Magan Wilson is a potter turned fibre artist with a love of plants, experimentation, cats, and the hidden beauty of the natural world. Her love of glaze chemistry and form transformed into a love of dyes, fibre, felt, and knitwear. Her work catches the wholeness of existing in the present.…
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Barbara (Bobbie) Williams was introduced to the world of weaving in 1985 by a wonderful spinning-weaving duo in North Carolina. That exposure launched her down the rabbit hole of fibre cræft*. She now spins, weaves, felts, knits, dyes and has even tried her hand at hide tanning. Over the years…
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Shannon Webb-Campbell is a member of Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation. Her books include Still No Word (Breakwater 2015), I Am A Body of Land (Book*hug 2019), and Lunar Tides (Book*hug 2022). Shannon is a doctoral candidate at the University of New Brunswick in the Department of English, and the editor…
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Amy Vervoort is the owner of Olives and Bananas Fibre Art / Wool Shop in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Horticulture and fibre arts come together in her work, with a lifelong passion for gardening influencing this past decade’s concentration in the fibre arts. She crafts with wool roving, yarn, and threads…
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Janna Maria Vallee is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily within the media of botanical dyeing and tapestry weaving. In 2008 Janna attended Capilano University’s Textile Art diploma program and in 2013 graduated with distinction with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University’s Fibres and Material Practices program (Montreal, Quebec.)…
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Elizabeth Thrasher is chair of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum. She is an artist, writer, and photographer whose skills range from puppet-building to policy-writing. She learned to sew and knit as a child, and has expanded her skills in the fibre arts to include dyeing…
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Sarah Thornton is a connector - she loves bringing people and ideas together, especially over local fibres and foods. When not teaching college Biology labs, she knits, spins, designs, teaches, and occasionally weaves in her new studio space on Vancouver Island. She's also a cyclist, skier, hiker, and gardener! Find…
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Cathy Thomson is a retired children’s librarian who has tried many, many crafts over her lifetime. She learned to knit at age 17 by making an ugly T-shirt with yarn purchased from a Woolco department store. She was the owner of a business selling spinning wheels and looms called Project…
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John Thomson is an art critic with Galleries West magazine, a weekly compendium of west coast painting, sculpture, and photography. Originally trained as a broadcast journalist ( CBC, CTV, TVO, and Discovery Canada ), he’s obsessed with history, art (he’s particularly fond of makers in any medium), politics, and human…
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Lisa Terech (she/her) is an avid knitter and museum professional residing in Oshawa, Ontario.
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Elizabeth Stregger (she/they) is a queer knitter and data librarian. She loves brioche, sequence knitting, and problem-solving. She married her favourite yarn dyer, Marit Munson of Gobsmacked Yarn, and they live together in Sackville, New Brunswick.
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Kathleen learned to knit over forty years ago, and has been designing knitting patterns for over a decade, appearing in a variety of both physical and virtual publications. Consequently, there are a fair few techniques, tips, ideas, and opinions swirling around in her brain about knitting, and she loves sharing…
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After a career of producing large scale municipal festivals and events, Lynne now splits her time between designing knitwear, teaching knitting classes that specialize in “knit literacy”, and producing stand-up comedy festivals and live shows. She’s funny for a regular person.
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Joanne Seiff’s the author of Three Ply, Fiber Gathering and Knit Green. She writes, edits, spins, knits, designs and teaches in Winnipeg. Joanne lives in an old house with her absentminded professor husband, twins, and a bird dog. You can see her knitting designs on Payhip, Ravelry and Lovecrafts.com. Read…
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Karla’s knowledge of plant science and her deep appreciation of the crafts of hand spinning and weaving have led her on a fascinating fibre journey. She is especially captivated by the ancient human endeavour of growing flax, extracting the fibres and turning them into linen cloth. Or, as the fairy…
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Julie Rosvall grew up in New Brunswick, and moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 1998 where she started her career as a textile artist. In 2010 Julie began experimenting with printmaking, exploring transferring the patterns & textures of textiles to paper. Her current practice is now focused on textile relief…
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Brye Robertson: "I am an Inuk, more specifically I am Inuvialuk. I grew up in Fort Smith NWT. I am currently a visitor on Treaty 7 territory. I am a student at Mount Royal University in the Social Work Diploma program, which will turn into the Social Work degree soon.…
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Text and textile are the main threads that have run throughout Josiane Richer dit Laflèche’s life and they, along with neurodivergency and disability (ME/CFS), have had the biggest influence on the shape it has taken. A linguistic anthropologist by training, she works with words––both hers and those of others––in various…
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Fergus Reed is a painter and fibre artist. He started out quilting, and has found expression in knitting, crochet, miniature making, painting both digitally and in acrylic ink, and especially loves cross stitch. Find him on Etsy at etsy.com/ca/shop/badvibesonlyshop and on Instagram @bigbadvibes_
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Michale Raske learned how to crochet from her talented Romanian grandmother at the age of ten. Forty-five years later she picked up knitting needles and revived her passion for all things craft and fibre. A veteran of the film and television industry, Michale now takes time away from her many…
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Leanne Prain is the author of Strange Material: Storytelling Through Textiles; Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti co-authored with Mandy Moore; and Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery. Her fourth book, on the theme of creative troublemaking, will be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in Spring 2022.
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Ellen Paulley (she/her) is the founder and principal strategist of Stratosphere Communications. An avid knitter and novice spinner, she enjoys a strong cup of coffee and watching a BBC mystery while she crafts. Her knitting has been part of a collaborative knit print project spearheaded by Julie Rosvall, a Nova…
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Lia Pas is a Saskatoon-based multidisciplinary artist who works in image, text, and sound, exploring body and states of being. She focused on performance-based work until 2015 when she became disabled with a chronic illness. Since then her work has focused on text and fibre arts. Her symptomatology and anatomy…
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Mary Pal is a Canadian fibre artist best known for her cheesecloth portraiture, artworks that are made with sculpted cheesecloth that is stitched to a textile backing, using a technique she pioneered over a decade ago. The resulting portraits are meticulously detailed and exquisitely textural. Her work has been exhibited…
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Ikshaa (she/her) is an aspiring writer and budding embroiderer who has recently gotten back into the writing scene since the start of the pandemic. She graduated from University of Western Ontario with a master’s in English Literature. Ikshaa lives in Toronto with her family and their yellow lab. She is…
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Coleen's love of spinning and dyeing, which she teaches throughout North America, has taken her on interesting adventures. Her work as a labourer on a silk farm in northern Laos led her to develop a passion for silk reeling to produce the fine yarns she uses in her knitted lace…
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ARTIST BIO Shelly is a transplanted Maritimer who has been living in and learning about her Prairie home since she arrived in Regina in 2002. She first picked up a hook in 2015 while visiting her home province of PEI. While she is self taught, genetics may also be an…
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Karri Munn-Venn is the co-owner and head shepherd at Fermes Leystone Farms (pronounced LAY-stone) located on unceded Algonquin territory in west Québec. She shares this piece of paradise with her fabulous husband Trefor and their three kids. Karri is a knitter, teacher, and knitwear designer. In 2017, she created Phoenix…
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Haliburton based artisan, Pat Moffatt, is a lifelong fibre artist. She was introduced to fibre art as a young child by her mother. Pat started by learning traditional fibre art forms; sewing, quilting, knitting and crochet. Since learning to tat in 2003, she is always experimenting and looking for a…
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Connie is a knitter and freelance writer living on Treaty 7 Territory in Airdrie, Alberta. She is currently developing Woolstead, where she will offer knitting technical editing services to independent designers. In her free time she enjoys reading and spending time with her husband, children, and grandson. Connie is excited…
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Marichka Melnyk is a Toronto-based radio producer and broadcaster, photographer and compulsive traveller, who became an avid distance walker after completing the Camino de Santiago de Compostela across Spain in 2013. She hikes nature trails both inside and outside the Toronto city limits, including the entire Pan Am Path, and…
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Jessie lives in Edmonton in Treaty 6 Territory, where she writes patterns for hand-knitters who can’t resist the lure of texture, cables, and colour in their next sweater, hat, or mitten project. She began to crochet and knit after becoming a mother, teaching herself from library books, and soon found…
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Emily McIvor is a sheep farmer, dyer and wool broker focusing on regenerative pasture management, circular wool washing systems and other climate adaptive practices, Emily’s deep motivation is creating environmentally sustainable textile systems. She is co-owner at New Wave Fibre and founding board member of the Canadian Wool Collective.
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Zoe McDonell, MSc, RPBio, is a Vancouver-based textile artist and ecologist of settler-descent specializing in dyeing with plants, windfall lichens and mushrooms. She has been teaching workshops, lectures and demonstrations on natural dye techniques and other fiber arts since 2003. She studies how forest communities can be managed for conservation.
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Curiosity and exploration are the name of the game for Canadian knitwear designer and indie hand dyer, Kim McBrien Evans. A lifelong love of colour, texture, and pattern prompted Kim to transition from working artist to textile maven. Her knitwear designs are known for their ability to turn an abstract…
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Helen is a fibre artist and woodturner. She enjoys being curious and exploring history, traditions, and new forms of craft. Her work has appeared in Spin Off magazine and Piecework magazine by Long Thread Media, also with Laine Publishing Oy in Finland, and at the Centre for Craft in Manitoba.…
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Andrea Marván is a writer and photographer with a passion for design, travel, and all things handmade. Being a creative person herself, she loves using photography to tell captivating stories about makers and creative individuals. Her work has been published in magazines such as UPPERCASE, Little U, Montecristo, Maple, Sweet…
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Gillian Martin is a knitting enthusiast and freelance knit-wear photographer who spends a lot of time holding her delightful new baby, and tries to get a row of knitting in here and there. Everyone in her family has at least one handknit sweater and many, many hats. She lives in…
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Mary has recently been obsessed with reversible fabrics. She finds herself sneaking a peak at the wrong side of fabrics everywhere she goes. She has found various ways to make knitted fabrics reversible with the use of slipped-stiches and believes that there is much more to explore with this technique.
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Keavy Martin (she/her) is an ex-English professor turned fibre millworker living in Edmonton, Alberta, courtesy of the ongoing legal agreement known as Treaty No. 6, and within Region 4 of the Métis Nation of Alberta. She thinks through textiles and fibreshed work, particularly mending, which she practices when not parenting…
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Tonia Lyons is a Master Hand Knitter, knitting teacher, and knitwear designer based in Quebec, Canada. Her work has been featured in Cast On, Interweave, and Knitty. She loves to chat all about knitting on her YouTube channel, Nerdy Knitting, and her website, toniaknits.com. For more information, visit toniaknits.com.
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Amelia began her knitting journey as a child. She learned the basics from her mother and picked up new techniques along the way from aunts, friends of parents, and the owners and staff of her local yarn store in Ottawa. After moving to Toronto, she got her dream job working…
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Originally from Saskatchewan, I grew up surrounded by makers. Mother, grandmothers, aunts, cousins, it was inevitable that I would be a maker too. I loved using my creativity from a young age and I turned this passion into a career. I moved to Toronto to attend design school and have…
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Obsessed with colour and craft, my journey through knitting, sewing, spinning, dyeing, and the fibre arts have led me to weaving. I’m the founder of SweetGeorgia Yarns and the School of SweetGeorgia. You’ll also find me talking about making time to make things here on YouTube. Through Lo Meets Loom,…
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Cynthia Levy is a craft enthusiast and knitting designer living in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories but originally from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Recently retired from a career in law, she now makes time each day to indulge obsessions for knitting, weaving, quilting, pottery and more. Whenever the weather permits, she’ll be found…
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Suzan Lee is a bookbinding instructor based in Vancouver, Canada. She has been teaching bookbinding and box making for over 10 years. She learned her bookbinding skills at the Center for Book Arts in New York. Her interest in bookbinding started with her fascination with the wide range of materials…
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Marite Kuus is a textile artist, craftsperson and writer, originally from Estonia. From one faraway place to another, they attempt to capture and forge links between the past, the present and the near future, by exploring the sustainability of traditional crafts, waste and the mundane. Their main interests include moss,…
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Catherine Knutsson the owner of the Small Bird Workshop, where she sells hand dyed yarn and fibre. She is a knitter, spinner, weaver, and fibre maven. When she isn’t working with fibre, she can be found hiking, singing, and gardening with her husband, Mikel, and their three cats. Catherine has…
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Tara Klager is a first-generation regenerative fibre farmer raising endangered and heritage breed sheep hard against the Rocky Mountain foothills in Alberta, Canada. With a passion for the land and a firm conviction that her role is to safeguard and steward the amazing place she gets to call home, Tara,…
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Nicky is an xray technologist who began designing and tech editing knitting patterns during her maternity leave in 2018. She has enjoyed the opportunity to meet and work with so many wonderful people in the knitting design world from the comfort of her living room in Bowmanville, Ontario, where she…
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Sahm Jalbert has been teaching the relaxing and versatile craft of punch needle for five years. Although originally most comfortable with a pencil and paintbrush, Sahm was interested in trying a fibre craft and was intrigued by rug hooking. After trying various methods, she fell in love with Punch Needle…
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Anna Hunter is a first-generation sheep farmer and wool mill owner in Eastern Manitoba, Treaty One Territory. Anna, her husband Luke, and their two sons moved to Manitoba from Vancouver, BC, in 2015. She started a small sheep farm, raising Shetland sheep for their beautiful wool. In 2018 they established…
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Krista Hennebury is a former geoscientist now playing with fabric on an island off the coast of Vancouver, BC. She started quilting in 2000, blogging about her makes under the name Poppyprint in 2009 and published a compilation book of retreat-inspired sewing and quilting projects, Make It, Take It in…
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Leanna Haughian is an accomplished crochet designer and an all-around creative force. In 2016 she started her company Crafty Bones and quickly decided the main focus was to specialize in creating beautiful, modern designs with a classic twist. Her work has been featured in Crochet Foundry Magazine, and on the…
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Shepherd & Artist Bethany Harris specializes in Felting. Her work blends together her love for art, sheep, and farming. She has a University education in Art (BA Liberal Arts, University of Waterloo 2015) & Prairie Horticulture (PHC, University of Saskatchewan 2017). Valuing Heritage Breed Sheep for their soft fleeces, and…
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Malinda Gray, M.A., is an Indigenous Studies PhD Candidate at Trent University, where she also facilitates beading workshops for the First Peoples House of Learning. She lives in Peterborough, ON with her husband, three sons, and her cat, Hazel.
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Elana began her art career primarily as a realist artist in the academic tradition with her studies taking her to the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto. Although still working in this style part of the time, after achieving her Master Spinner Certification from Olds College, Elana began creating work…
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Rebecca Godderis (she/her) is a bi/queer feminist sewist and academic. She was taught to sew at a young age by her mom, and then took a long break to focus on her academic career studying gender, health, social justice and community building. She rediscovered her love of sewing in her…
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Nadine Flagel is a self-taught textile and fibre artist whose mission is making art out of “making do.” She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Dalhousie University and teaches literature and composition. She is interested in the repurposing of both texts and textiles. Both practices rely on cutting up…
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Caitlin ffrench is an artist living in East Vancouver. She works with wildcrafted pigments from the land bases she visits and she uses string to make all sorts of magical things.
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Kim is a freelance writer and editor who lives on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia. She has a love of all things fibre and had, for a time, a wonderful store filled with sustainable yarns and fibres. She is an avid knitter and spinner, and has a whole lotta…
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Stephanie Erin is an experienced crochet and Tunisian designer. She focuses on modern design elements that make knitters want to pick up a hook. Size inclusivity is not an issue with Stephanie's mathematical magic. She continues to come up with unique designs that are accessible to all levels of experience.
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Fiona Ellis learned to knit from her Grandmother at a very early age. She went onto to study Fashion at DeMontfort University (Leicester UK) where she specialized in knitwear design. She has been designing professionally since graduating in 1993. Her original designs have been sold to major fashion houses in…
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Elizabeth Elliott learned to knit as a child, and started designing for hand knitters in 2010. Her work has appeared in several publications, including knit.wear, Twist Collective, and Knitscene. Elizabeth’s designs play with texture and geometry for clean, modern pieces with a timeless look. As a handspinner, she is fascinated…
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Marvel is a passionate knit and crochet enthusiast with over ten years of experience, crafting beautiful knitwear and delving into the world of design. By day, she works as a full-time Implementation specialist, using her analytical skills to help companies track and reduce their emissions. Her love for problem solving…
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Laurie is the artist behind the Hook, Line & Tinker craft studio in Ketch Harbour, Nova Scotia. "As part of my journey to date, I have been a Jersey Girl, a Yukon Sourdough, and now I'm what some Nova Scotians refer to as a CFA (come-from-away). Like my favourite things,…
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Quitting their PhD due to toxic work environment and relationships, Zoë decided to take on the challenge of becoming a first-time business owner: a yarn shop owner! Obsessed with crochet and fibres, and then knitting, the transition seemed perfectly logical, but somewhat risky. Flash forward to today, and their shop…
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I am primarily a crocheter, both regular and Tunisian. I enjoy making garments and accessories, and my favourite yarn weights to work with are fingering weight and sport/DK in semi-solid to highly variegated colours, usually in shades of purple! I was born, raised and currently live in the Toronto area,…
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Chantel Conlon, creator of Lots of Knots Canada, is a macramé artist/author, content creator, and fiber art supplier known for her video tutorials and innovative designs. She is one of the most followed macramé artists in the world. She incorporates unique fibers into her designs and tutorials using coloured string,…
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Sandra Clarke, has been untangling skeins of yarn + making useful shiny things for over 30 years. Born in the colourful, celtic, Montreal neighbourhood of Griffintown, + educated in Montreal, New York, Winnipeg, Vancouver + Toronto, helped Sandra develop her eclectic style. Her textile + fibre arts + courses include;…
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Amielle is a freelance writer with too many interests to write about any one thing. She's written about ethical consumerism, small businesses (with a focus on makers), mental health, social justice, and the arts in their many varied and wide ranging forms. Over the years, she's taken crochet, beading, knitting,…
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Willa Bradshaw has come full circle. Born in Tofino, B.C., Willa grew up in a community of crafters, makers and builders. She left to pursue a career in science and art in the big city. In 2019, Willa returned to her hometown with her husband and cat to care for…
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Michelle Boyd is a Master Spinner, weaver, and writer who lives in Olds, Alberta, located in Treaty 7 Territory, the ancestral lands of the peoples of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Michelle learned to spin in 1995 when her local yarn shop closed, and she became obsessed with the art and science…
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Johanna does not remember learning how to knit. She must have learned as a child, from an aunt or cousin, but it feels like the basics at least were always known. She seriously resumed the craft in 2006, after purchasing a nicely designed but poorly assembled cardigan and deciding it…
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Anne Blayney is a conference planner and knitter based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. She is a former contributor and editor at Sewcialists.com.
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Victoria Bingham currently lives in the Haliburton Highlands of Ontario with her dog, Molly. She is an avid supporter of arts and culture and can often be found in the audience or on the stage at local events. She loves cooking, baking, embroidery, and knitting, and is attempting to learn…
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Francisco Berlanga is a contemporary textile artist who studied at Simon Fraser University. He obtained his BFA in Visual Arts and he is currently working towards completing his MFA at UBC. His practice is based on questioning identity, particularly his connection with his own Mexican culture and how one can…
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Jenn Ashton is an Award-winning Coast Salish author and visual artist. She is the author of the prize-winning "Siamelaht" in British Columbia History in 2019. Her book of Short Stories, People Like Frank, and other stories from the Edge of Normal (TidewaterPress 2020) was a finalist for the Indigenous Voices…
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Teghan Acres is a storyteller, writer, and environmental communicator. Her writing spans the environmental field with a focus on the circular economy and zero waste. Her blog, Climate Hope Project, shares the stories of local sustainability practitioners with the goal of inspiring readers to act on climate change. She has…
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