One of the most inspiring, hardest working crafters I know is my business partner. She organizes the Indie Craft Experience with me and is an amazing crafter (duh, otherwise she wouldn’t be my business partner). Shannon Mulkey is a busy gal (understatement.) and we literally had this conversation while on our flight to the Summit [...]

One of the things I value most about being a part of our wonderful craft community is that I know so many amazingly talented hard working ladies. One of the hardest working women in show the biz is Christine Haynes from Los Angeles. I met Christine in 2005 when she was a vendor at [...]

For someone struggling to succeed in a creative field, selling the clothes off your own back usually isn’t a sign that things are going well. But not so for R. Brooke Priddy, who in the early 2000s was striving to make it in the fashion industry, working out of her tiny New York apartment and, [...]

Even the most unobservant visitor to Asheville, North Carolina, would have to notice that it’s a place where crafts are a big deal. It has the Folk Art Center, the Guild Crafts shop, and the Appalachian Craft Center. It has the Blue Spiral 1 gallery, the Grovewood Gallery, and the North Carolina Homespun Museum. On [...]

With an amazing array of artfully displayed materials in their craft supplies store and a dedication to community involvement and learning craft, the Fancy Tiger ladies are an inspiration to crafters and independent business owners alike. They combine business savvy, inspiration, and fun to bring a great destination shop to Denver’s South Broadway area. Amber [...]

Shannon Duffy has studied psychology in North Carolina, woodworking in Kentucky, and jewelry making in Arizona. But a bigger influence on what she does as a crafter might be the time she spent playing with dolls in Germany. “We were stationed there with the Army. We lived near Erlangen when I was 10 to 13 [...]