Hill Country Weavers Knitting In The Hills Retreat for six years. Jimmy Beans Wool Biggest Little Getaway retreat for two years. Knit Stars Season 8. Knitty Natty's Yarn Love community on Zoom. Assorted knitting guilds and yarn shops.
My grandmother tells me that I demanded that she teach me to knit when I was five. She made me wait until I was seven
As an artist I'm passionate about color dynamics and repetitive pattern. I made the jump from full-time fine artist to dyer and knitwear designer nearly eight years ago.
I love being part of the creative chain. It's quite gratifying to make yarns and patterns that other folks can use to express their own creativity.
Denise Bell is the designer behind two books, each of which draws inspiration from a specific region and its culture.
Her first book, Ultima Thule, is set in the Shetland Islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland, and features incredible lacework inspired by life on the islands.
Her Kailyard shawl draws gasps when it is unfurled
Her second book, Deep Roots, considers the landscape and personalities of the Flint Hills of Chase County, Kansas, a unique tallgrass prairie uninterrupted by mechanized agriculture.
Along with these two books, Denise has designed lace shawls, skirts, colorwork vests, sweaters, and other interesting garments.
Her teaching experience includes events from coast to coast and border to border at large conventions, small retreats, guilds, yarn shops, and an online sweater semester series allowing a small group of students to work through all of the intricacies of a chosen sweater over a three month period.
Denise’s goal is to encourage students at all levels to be intrepid and eclectic in their knitting adventures.
Denise and her husband Chris run Lost City Knits, a small independent company named for the town nearest their Eastern Oklahoma farm.
Stitches West, Stitches Expo at Home, Interweave Yarnfest, Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, New York Sheep and Wool Festival/Rhinebeck (virtual), Madrona Fiberarts Winter Retreat, Red Alder Fiberarts Retreat, Black Sheep Gathering, John C Campbell Folk School, Fiberworld (Virtual), Madison Knitters Guild, Salt Lake Knitters Guild
This will be my first year teaching classes outside my studio, but I'm hoping to have a few smaller fiber festivals under my belt before DFW. (Midwest Fiber Fest & Fiber U)
DFW Fiber Fest 2023 I did a demonstration in Fiberatory! Now it's a class!
I'm the owner of 316 Dye Studio & have been dyeing for nearly a decade. I started my dye garden in 2023, and have been down the rabbit hole of eco-printing since.
DFW Fiber Fest, McKinney Knittery, Jennings Street Yarns, virtually through Stitches Events, Longmont Yarn Shoppe (Colorado), River City Yarns (Alberta), numerous guilds across North America
DFW Fiber Fest, Madrona/Red Alder, Stitches West, PLY Away, Maryland Sheep and Wool, Black Sheep Gathering, Estes Park Wool Market, Wisconsin Sheep and Wool, Lambtown Festival, New York Sheep and Wool, SAFF.
Michael Cook grew up in the woods north of Houston, dividing his time between learning obscure old handcrafts like quilling and embroidery and tramping through the woods picking berries and turning over logs to find interesting bugs.
Now, he lives by a creek in south Dallas with his husband Chris, three dogs, and a cat, plus a revolving cast of neighborhood wildlife.
His day job is working for a performing arts center, and he divides his free time between practicing and teaching obscure old handcrafts like weaving and silk reeling, and photographing and studying things he finds on trees and under logs.
A fascination with silk has led him down many twisty and interesting paths, including work with museums, published articles, and speaking engagements.
I have been making macrame projects for a few years now, while I love a traditional wall hanging, it's fun to experiment with new ideas and techniques.
My new venture is incorporating weaving into wall hangings.
I started crocheting this past year, and love finding ways to use the scrap yarn in my macrame art!
I’m an identical twin. My twin sister only knits and doesn’t know how to crochet!
I once made a huge order of dolls for a famous rapper. He sold them at a British department store and they sold out in one day!
I have a huge rainbow wall of yarn in my office. I use it every single day and every time I buy new yarn I wind it and put it on my wall. I always know exactly what I have!
DFW Fiber Fest, Houston Fiber Fest, Fiber Fun in the Sip, Yellow Rose, Fiber Christmas in July [Kellyville OK], Winter Fiber Fun Retreat, various local retreats, local yarn/craft stores: Yarn Store Boutique [Houston], JoAnns, The Lamb Shoppe [Denver].
Loves to teach about knitting and thinks that most people would be surprised how important she thinks it is
Author of the popular and long-lived blog "Yarn Harlot"
Part of the magic at the Strung Along Retreats for knitters
The New York Times Bestselling author of eight books, seven of which have a lot to do with knitting. (The eighth is lighter in the yarn department but is still funny.)
Mother of three, wife of one, can drive a standard, and has owned two cats in a row that don't care much for her
Lives in an untidy, wool-filled house in Toronto, Canada.
Vogue Knitting Live, Stitches Events, Rowan Connect, Red Alder Fiber Arts, Yarn Over/MKG, Madison Knitter's Guild, Melissa & Friends events, and various shops and guilds all over the world.
So many places in the last decade: all Stitches shows and a couple Retreats, Interweave shows on both coasts and the Colorado ones, Vogue Knitting Live in NYC, Red Alder, Maryland Sheep & Wool, Yarnover, Fiber College, and countless LYS and Guild events as well as virtual workshops in recent years.
Has been teaching double-knitting around the country since 2005
Double-knitting has been my passion for almost two decades and my contributions to that library of techniques have been many. Aside from my foundation workshops, I am the only person in the world who teaches the vast majority of the workshops I teach.
Despite being exposed to a lot of knitting growing up in Vermont, I didn't learn to knit until my senior year of college, at a craft-sharing event.
I met my wife (now of 15 years) at a knitting group.
My favorite yarn to work in is Kauni, which is Estonian for "beautiful."
Author of Extreme Double-Knitting and Double or Nothing
DFW Fiber Fest, Camp Starlight, Craftsy, Dallas Hand Knitters Guild, Do Ewe Knit?, Fibre Space, Four Purls, Fuzzy Goat, Hill Country Weavers, Houston Fiber Fest, Knitting in the Hills Retreat, Knotty Lamb, Online Courses, San Diego Hand Knitters Guild, The Farmer's Daughter Fibers, The Modern Skein, Vogue Knitting Live
Brioche knitting is kind of my thing, but I also love knitting lots of other stitch patterns...I'm multi-stitchual!!
I love to play video games in my spare time, like Animal Crossing New Horizons, Horizon: Forbidden West and Minecraft.
I remember knitting a small pink garter stitch swatch when I was around 7 years old, that was my first knitting experience. I didn't pick it up again until I was in college! It felt like starting all over.
Plyaway in Kansas City, Daedalus Flyin retreat in Lexington, KY, Red Alder in Tacoma WA, Majacraft Camp in Australia and New Zealand, Maryland Sheep and Wool in May 2024
Charan Sachar is an artist whose work reflects his passion for the fiber arts, like knitting, spinning, weaving, quilting and he uses it as an inspiration for his clay work.
In all the fields that he works in, he loves to accept challenges and approach the making with a “what if..” attitude.
Charan specializes in creating art yarns with textures, using traditional spinning techniques and pushing them an extra step to create unique yarns.
As a teacher, he shares his preferences and his learnings along his journey, but also encourages his students to try techniques/materials by themselves and then decide for themselves.
Tim teaches chemistry at the University of North Texas, where he has combined his love of science and fiber arts to develop experiments in dyeing fabric for his students.
Tim's first charted pattern won first place at the State Fair of Texas.
Tim has won three first place ribbons, two third place ribbons, and multiple honorable mentions at the State Fair of Texas.
