Meet the makers.
Creative minds, generous hearts, and a shared love of handmade.
79 designers
Alexandra Henry
An award-winning needle artist and passionate quilter who loves sharing the joy of making.
51 projects · Quilting, Kitchen, HolidayMeet the maker
Darlene Christopherson
Darlene C. Christopherson began quilting in 1979 in the Washington, DC area during the resurgence of quilt making. Darlene began teaching regionally in the Virginia area and worked on the staff of the Jinny Beyer Hilton Head Seminars for 5 years before…
24 projects · Quilting, Accessories, HolidayMeet the maker
Nancy Wygle
Nancy has been quilting for over 14 years. She specializes in T-shirt and Memory Quilts. Nancy makes her Memory Quilts using photographs and baby clothes from her grandchildren to capture those special moments. She also enjoys fiber arts and making Artists…
11 projects · Accessories, Home Décor, ApparelMeet the maker
Sara Lawson
Sara is an avid bag maker, sewer and creator of the popular blog Sew Sweetness, has a passion for sewing and sharing her creativity and patterns with others. We love seeing Sara’s creations and can’t wait to see what she will come up with next!
11 projects · Bags, Quilting, Home DécorMeet the maker
Jackie White
Jackie is a quilt artist that has had her quilts juried in Canadian and American Shows. She started off in traditional quilts with her first quilt being a Trip Around the World. From that traditional quilt, Jackie made a few more bed quilts, but soon got…
10 projects · Quilting, Home Décor, AccessoriesMeet the maker
Karin Jordan
Karin Jordan blogs at Leigh Laurel Studios. She grew up under her architect father’s drafting table, making mini models out of the cardboard scraps that fell to the floor. At age ten she purchased her first sewing machine from a neighbor who taught her sewing…
10 projects · Home Décor, Quilting, HolidayMeet the maker
Rachael Gander
Meet Rachael, the all-around crafty lady behind popular blog, imagine gnats. Rachael has an incredible (and perhaps at times, compulsive) desire to express herself, something which has taken many forms over the years including sewing, knitting, graphic…
8 projects · Apparel, Kitchen, QuiltingMeet the maker
Anjeanette Klinder
Anjeanette is a wife, mother and creator. She dreams in fabric and likes to eat good food way too much. She blogs at byAnjeanette.blogspot.com.
6 projects · Quilting, Kids, AccessoriesMeet the maker
Connie Watkins
Connie has quilted for most of my life but she got really serious in the late 80’s early 90’s. She has probably made at least 200 quilts over the years. She has won 3 “Best of Shows” in Central Texas Quilt Shows and numerous ribbons. Connie has had 9 quilts…
6 projects · Accessories, Quilting, KidsMeet the maker
Lisa Ruble
Lisa Ruble blogs under the name Ellie Q over at Color My World. She frequently gives up sleep to sew and/or bribe her toddlers with watching cartoons when an idea hits, and she has a ridiculously large fabric stash. Her style is more modern than not, though…
6 projects · Kids, Bags, AccessoriesMeet the maker
Dani Miller
Sewist, Knitter, Quilter, Weaver – Dani is a lover of craft. She is also a highly organized person that thrives on lists. Her business, KSC Designs, is where crafting and organization meet. She spends endless hours behind her industrial Juki sewing machine…
5 projects · KitchenMeet the maker
Emily Lang
Emily is a wife, mother, and part-time bookseller. She started quilting as a way to create something that would stay done while her daughter napped as an infant, and while she is now past the napping age quilting is here to stay.Most of Emily’s sewing happens…
5 projects · Home Décor, Bags, HolidayMeet the maker
Marni Weaver
With a passion for sewing and design, Marni Weaver showcases her talent through each post on Haberdashery Fun. By creating tutorials with step-by-step illustrations, Marni uses her background in fashion and design and her 15 years of sewing to teach blog…
5 projects · Bags, Holiday, AccessoriesMeet the maker
Deborah C. Vollbracht
Deborah is an ordinary, everyday, in love with textiles quilter who loves non-traditional design. Lately her journey gravitates toward simple shapes and quickly completed projects—a sort of “side trip” on the quilting highway. As they say, it’s not the…
4 projects · Home Décor, Holiday, KitchenMeet the maker
Jill Dorsey
mox·ie (mŏk’sē) n.Slang 1. The ability to face difficulty with spirit and courage. 2. Force of character, determination, or nerve. 3. Skill; know-how.
4 projects · Kids, Accessories, QuiltingMeet the maker
Kiera Vanella
Kiera Vanella is passionate about sewing, quilting and embroidery. When she’s not in her studio designing and creating, you can find her on her blog It’s Sew Kiki, where she shares what she loves.
4 projects · Bags, Holiday, QuiltingMeet the maker
Vanessa Lynch
Vanessa is the crafty and design savvy voice behind popular blog Punkin Patterns. She was taught to sew and embroider by her mother at an early age and learned how to knit and crochet from her grandmother. Crafting truly is her family legacy! A chemistry whiz…
4 projects · Apparel, Accessories, BagsMeet the maker
Ariel LaCoste
Ariel LaCoste is the owner of über creative etsy store, Southpaw Creativity. She has a passion for crafting and sewing. Ariel has a distinct style all her own and we are so glad that she is sharing it with us!
3 projects · Quilting, Home Décor, HolidayMeet the maker
Heather Parsons
Heather is the voice behind popular blog Small Fry & Co. She is a stay at home mother of two girls, a wife, a former Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher and a craftaholic. She loves all things creative and particularly loves sewing and paper crafting. If you…
3 projects · Holiday, BagsMeet the maker
Jennie Pickett
Jennie is one half of the mother-daughter team of Clover & Violet. She works with her mom, sewing, quilting, and designing patterns (mostly for patchwork bags, but also for embroidery). It is a dream-come-true kind of job, doing what she loves, working with…
3 projects · Bags, Kitchen, HolidayMeet the maker
Kim Niedzwiecki
Kim is an energetic, incredibly kind and endlessly thoughtful lady. She is mom to four and wife to one. She discovered her love for sewing shortly after her last child was born and hasn’t looked back since. She is driven and inspired and is always looking…
3 projects · Kids, Accessories, QuiltingMeet the maker
Whitney Edwards
Whitney is a mid-twenties gal from Oklahoma. She is the host of Whitney Sews, a weekly sewing tutorial show, available on youTube. She has been a tutorial contributor to Threadbanger since September 2011. Her projects encompass a broad spectrum of difficulty…
3 projects · Accessories, BagsMeet the maker
Alicia Wietholter
I’m a graphic designer by trade and fell in love with sewing many years ago. I think it was a natural path for me to mesh the two and start drafting my own sewing patterns. There’s nothing I like sewing together more than bags, so that’s mostly what I do! I…
2 projects · BagsMeet the maker
Elizabeth Dackson
Elizabeth Dackson is a self-proclaimed fabric-aholic, with no designs on reform! Her sewing career began back in 2010 with a quest to develop a new hobby. Little did she know, she was starting a whole new way of life. A stay-at-home mom to a very curious…
2 projects · QuiltingMeet the maker