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WoolFelt®, in their designs. Here is a partial listing of some of the companies who feature or mention National
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American Homestead, Ellen Murphy
Ellen Murphy of American Homestead says she was born with a crayon in her hand. She has loved art and design her entire life. She has always enjoyed manipulating fabric, whether for garment construction or craft pursuits. Ellen has a degree in Fine Art and has a love of color. Working in graphic design and as a quilting teacher helped Ellen create patterns that are easy to understand. Ellen has a love for travel that has taken her all around the world and she brings the inspiration she receives from her journeys to her designs.
Contact: www.americanhomesteaddesign.com and visit her blog at americanhomestead.blogspot.com
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American Pie Designs, Melanie Pinney
Melanie describes her work as eclectic because she cannot settle on
any particular style and loves everything from primitive to folk art and even
whimsical (she admits she jumps from a quilt project one day to wool appliqué
or a penny rug the next). Although Melanie enjoys working with varied
materials, her greatest love is designing patterns and kits made exclusively
with National Nonwovens’ products that are suitable for both beginners and
experienced quilters and crafters. She loves to appliqué and says she chooses
National Nonwovens wool felt for her projects because their products are
versatile and the colors beautiful and rich. “I love to embellish my designs with
decorative embroidery stitches, and it’s so much fun with National Nonwovens
products!” Watch for Melanie’s designs in Primitive Quilts & Projects Magazine
and on her website.
Contact: www.americanpiedesigns.com
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Amy Bradley Designs
Amy graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in fine arts/ graphic design. She feels very blessed to be working with her two children, Ashley and Adam, along with her mother, Dorothy, who has been to every quilt market with Amy. The inspiration for her first quilt design, Dazzling Dogs, was to create a gift for her husband ’s veterinary clinic. Amy is always looking for her next comical character such as Quilt Diva, Super Quilter, Seasoned Quilter, and Bountiful Beauties. "I know quilters have just as much fun making my patterns as I have designing them," says Amy. "I've seen the photos!"
Amy's first design with National Nonwovens' felt is the Fabric Addict pillow shown here. She had so much designing with the felt that more patterns are already in the works.
Contact: www.amybradleydesigns.com
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Annelle’s Originals, Annelle Holzman
Annelle’s design company is truly a dream come true for her, especially since she feels that she could not live without creating in some way or another. The one-of-a-kind candle mat kits are the Annelle’s Originals hallmark product. They bring added warmth to any room. Pick a special little place in your home and/or a friend’s home for one of these wonderful cozy and inviting candle mats then simply switch out as the seasons come and go.
Annelle tells her customers that she uses WoolFelt® almost exclusively in her designs because she can depend on the colors and textures. “The colors are always consistent and almost always available,” says Annelle. “WoolFelt® is also less expensive than wool and more fun to work with!”
Contact: 203-723-1206 • www.annellesoriginals.com
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Annie’s Keepsakes, Vickie Clontz
A true “craft-a-holic”, Vickie began sewing at age 5 when she fashioned her first Barbie doll dress from her mother’s scrap-box. Her fascination with fabric continued through college, where she received a bachelor’s degree in science of clothing design and pattern making. Today, Vickie's successful business features patterns for quilting, crafting and needle felting. Her designs have been published in magazines such as Create & Decorate, Crafts 'n Things, and Crafts Magazine.
Vicki enjoys National Nonwovens’ new XoticFelt made with bamboo and rayon. She introduced a fun new pattern line at 2009 Spring Quilt Market to celebrate this soft, vibrant, and eco-friendly fabric. Pictured here is an XoticFelt pincushion and her popular Fedora Hat pattern made with 100% wool WCF006 WoolFelt.
Contact: 704- 279-7714 • www.annieskeepsakes.com |
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Artful Offerings, Karina
Hittle
Karina and her husband Audie are a design team currently specializing in the creation of craft, quilting and stitchery patterns ranging "from folk art to fancy"™. As an international award winning quilt artist and pattern designer with over 25 years of experience, Karina's work has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens® Holiday Crafts & Christmas Ideas, Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting™, Create & Decorate™, Country Marketplace™, Somerset Studio® Gallery™, Australian Homespun™, and Quilting Professional™. Audie has a Master's Degree from MIT Sloan and brings 30+ years of successful business experience to Artful Offerings so Karina can focus on designing. Together, they deliver an artfully creative experience to their customers with fresh pattern designs that evoke an element of excitement and surprise!
As a designer, Karina loves the wide range of National Nonwovens' WoolFelt® colors and finds it fun and easy to work with. "This versatile product can be used as is or can be washed and dried, ironed or felted, to easily achieve a variety of finishes and textures."
Contact: (978) 846-1632 - www.artfulofferings.com
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Bareroots, Barri Gaudet
Barri lives in June Lake, CA, which is scenically located in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, with her husband Ron, dog "Flip" and two kitties. She enjoys the picturesque beauty, walks, and kayaking in the lakes. If you happen to drive by her house you will see many colors drying in the breeze.
To the delight of her many loyal and enthusiastic customers, Barri keeps very busy creating new designs for her Bareroots Pattern Company. She just finished her second book "Pretty & Cozy" and has introduced dozens of new patterns over the last few years.
Barri especially loves working with small appliqué and WoolFelt® is perfect for this. She has introduced over 20 popular WoolFelt® candle mat patterns with multiple themes for every season. Because of the enormous popularity of these designs, National Nonwovens has created a special Bareroots Candle Mat Color Selection Guide to assist customers during ordering.
Contact: https://bareroots.com and see the Selection Guide
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Bits and Pieces by Joan, Joan Grenke
Joan enjoys working with WoolFelt® and has used it in many of her classy creations. She appreciates how easy it is to work with, citing “the no hem, straight edge of the felt that doesn’t turn under” as most important. Her patterns have a unique charm with decorative details and distinctive accessories. Joan is one of National Nonwovens’ original Pattern Partners and continues to implement WoolFelt® into pattern designs each year. Shown here is one of her most popular holiday projects, the Countdown to Christmas Santa pattern.
Contact: 760-480-0955 • www.bitsandpiecesbyjoan.com
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Cabin Creek Designs, Faye Wagner Schilling
Faye began sewing with her grandmothers at a very young age. She has always been creative and enjoys putting her own personal touch into everything she makes. Faye has been an avid quilter for over 30 years and began rug hooking in early 1995. This passion almost immediately led to teaching and designing rug hooking patterns, which then led to designing wool appliqué patterns.
Faye is a regular contributor to the publications Create & Decorate and Christmas 365. She uses WoolFelt® for many of her projects. “WoolFelt® is so easy to work with,” says Faye. “It doesn’t fray, it has a nice appearance and it photographs very well. It also cuts easily and holds its shape nicely.”
Contact: 651-459-9684 •
www.cabincreekdesigns.com
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Caught Up In Stitches, Donna Kazera
Caught Up In Stitches has been one of the most distinguished and successful appliqué design companies over the past 20 years. Donna designs her patterns with exceptional embellishments and distinctive decorative flairs, including WoolFelt® embellishments. Donna says that she enjoys working with WoolFelt® “because it adds a unique country look to my designs.” WoolFelt® is incorporated into many wearable art and appliqué dish towel patterns. New this year is her Hang-Ups for the Holidays trio, each character has a partial face peeking out.
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Cleo
and Me, Barbara Paquin
This creative craft design company features original patterns for dolls, quilts, pillows, wood, sweatshirts, stitchery, penny rugs, and CATS! Barbie likes to design patterns that make her smile and sometimes laugh, with lots of bright happy colors. Cleo, Barbie’s entertaining feline friend, often poses as a model for many of her fun designs.
If you find pleasure in the wide selection of WoolFelt® shades offered by National Nonwovens, then you must take a trip to the Cleo and Me website. You’ll be dazzled by the diverse and dynamic color palettes that Barbie utilizes in her WoolFelt® patterns, kits and books. You’ll also meet some of Cleo’s friends -- Chickie Baby, Lambie Pie, and Hop-A-Long -- when you see the delightful Easter bag patterns. Hunting for Easter eggs is a lot more fun when you have these cute little bags to put them in!
Contact: www.cleoandme.com
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The Cheswick Company, Cathy Pendleton
Cathy Pendleton had this idea...take old relics, old textiles and old "anything visually inspiring" and, from it, create something completely new and even MORE visually inspiring. From that idea, she decided to create a company...a forum to offer these unique pieces to people who would enjoy them. Cathy’s company began in 1992, and ever since that moment, she has been putting that one original idea to good use. Her work has allowed her to pluck an idea from her head and translate it into an original piece of folk art or a pattern for others to create. Cathy has been implementing WoolFelt from National Nonwovens into her designs for many years and some quilting and craft enthusiasts may recognize Cathy’s high-quality projects from her popular Indygo Junction designs. Visit Cathy’s website to find unique patterns, finished projects and kits.
Contact: www.cheswickcompany.com
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Cinnamon Patch, Marianne Byrne-Goarin
Marianne Byrne-Goarin, the designer behind The Cinnamon Patch, invites you to travel the seasons with her charming designs mixing patchwork fabrics and National Nonwovens’ WoolFelt® in a pure country style. Mini-quilts, cushions, table runners, wall hangings and other delightful homespun accessories will bring warmth and originality to your home. Her characteristic style is expressed in the much-loved penny rugs, and the original use of appliqué and traditional embroidery stitches that embellish her designs. Her patterns and latest book “Cinnamon Inspirations” are distributed to quilt shops in the US by Brewer.
Born in the US and raised in Ireland, Marianne is now based in France where she set up her cottage industry design company using WoolFelt® exclusively in her seasonal creations. “Working with WoolFelt® is so easy and relaxing and it has an almost therapeutic quality that I would compare to gardening,” says Marianne. “No need to be a ‘seasoned stitcher’ or even for a sewing machine. No fuss when cutting out, no frayed edges and appliqué is a child’s game. Just add a few simple embroidery stitches to personalize and voilà! “
If you are ordering the Cinnamon Patch book and patterns, please see the Cinnamon Patch Color Selection Guide.
Contact: www.thecinnamonpatch.com.
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Common Thread Designs, Susan Pennoyer
Common Thread Designs offers fiber art patterns and projects to the wholesale quilt and craft markets. Susan Pennoyer ~ Artist/Designer has been designing for more than 30 yrs. She possesses a diverse multi-media art background including (but not limited to) fine arts, handwork and sewing, dyeing, knitting and felting. She continues to learn and to teach, while keeping her creative and design muscles in shape!
Susan uses National Nonwovens’ WoolFelt® in her Bijou Brooches and Bijou Beads. “I love the quality, it’s super-easy to work with, AND it’s getting easier to find in shops!”
Contact: www.commonthreaddesigns.com
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Cotton Tales, Pamela Curo
Established in 1994, Cotton Tales Pattern Company has been creating quilts and wool projects to add charm and warmth to your home. Designer Pamela Curo has a background in art, and a BFA in costume design for the theatre. Living in a remote area of Minnesota has inspired Pam to design quilts that reflect life in the North Country. Pam's patterns specialize in traditional patterns, and the "lodge look". Although her patterns are easily adapted to wool and hand dyed wool, her designs are mostly devoted to the use of WoolFelt®.
Contact: 218-675-5281 • www.cottontales.net
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CottonWood Creations, Jennifer Clemen
Jennifer’s business all started when a neighbor suggested that she exhibit with her at a local craft show. Soon after, she started collecting interesting fabric and made the leap into creating her designs after the birth of her third baby. Many distributors have picked up Jennifer’s pattern line and she is rapidly developing new clientele with customers because of her cute patterns. Jennifer enjoys working with National Nonwovens’ felt and has introduced some wonderful characters that will help you celebrate the seasons. One example is Tom Turkey (shown here) that will bring a thankful smile to any gathering.
Contact: 515-978-4896 • www.cottonwood-creations.com
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Countryside Crafts, Linda West and Sue Devers
Countryside Crafts, located in Union, Ohio, began in 1973 selling merchandise and finished items. When customers began asking for patterns, they purchased a used ditto machine and began to make and sell patterns. Classes were soon added – not only to help beginners and offer instructions but to provide a time for people to gather. Today, their classes are friends who gather and share to make projects and enjoy lunch together.
Craft projects and patterns have changed over the years at Countryside Crafts. Many customers have recently requested felt wall hangings and Christmas ornaments. They enjoy working with felt because it is portable. Being a small business, Countryside competes with larger stores and they do so effectively by offering colors of WoolFelt® not found in the bigger stores. Along with the felt, they also offer merchandise to finish the projects and an atmosphere of caring for their customers.
Contact: www.countrysidepatterns.com
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Country
Stitches, Brenda Gervais
Country Stitches has “fun to stitch patterns with a touch of whimsy” including an embroidery line called By My Hand. After sewing patterns for over ten years, Brenda decided to also open a quilt shop in her local Iowa community to give her hometown neighbors a taste of the designs that hundreds of customers nationwide have come to love. Home decorating pattern and kit projects in the form of penny rugs, pillows, and soft sculpture dolls are offered through her popular catalog. Brenda was introduced to WoolFelt® several years ago and it is now one of the dominant materials in her designs. Country Stitches also has a popular “spoon head” doll series made out of WoolFelt®. A wooden spoon is used for their heads and the handle becomes their arms, legs, ears, and even a witch’s hat! They are darling so call and get your catalog today!
Contact: 712-732-5419 • www.countrystitchesonline.com
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Crawford Designs, Barbara Crawford
Barbara Crawford is not only the owner of Crawford Designs, an established pattern company specializing in appliqué designs and country collectable dolls, but is now leading the way in the needle felting craze. Barbara introduced the first two books written in the United States on needle felting wearables, fashion accessories and more. In both these books she utilized National Nonwovens WoolFelt® and 100% wool fabrics as a palette for National Nonwovens Wool Wisps™ wool rovings.
Barbara has two loves, needle felting and appliqué, and has fun creating many designs and teaching classes in both mediums. She needle felts both by hand and machine. She is also always changing sweatshirts into jackets and coats, as well as selling supplies, patterns, kits and fabrics. Barbara has written articles along with submitting models and projects for both SQE Professional and Sew News Magazine.
Contact: (816) 413-8506 • www.crawforddesigns.net
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DesignAndBeMary, Mary Mittelstadt
Mary has been creating ever since she can remember! Encouraged and driven in her efforts, she enthusiastically pursued a wide array of artistic endeavors. Graduating with a degree in art/art education, she taught high school art for almost 5 years before beginning a 25 year career as a professional artist selling her own work. Having been introduced to handwork and fabric from a young age, she has never been far from needle and thread! Mary started quilting in the early 1980’s and has been fortunate to win a number of awards and ribbons for her quilts, knitting and sewing. Recently, she became intrigued with wool and wool felt. Unable to find designs and patterns suited to her taste and encouraged by others, she went to work designing and creating her own patterns.
Contact: www.designandbemary.com
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Down Memory Lane, Nancy Hughes
Down Memory Lane began as a country store next to Mamie Doud Eisenhower’s birthplace. Nancy expanded over the years to designer of craft patterns such as shirt appliqué, pincushions, and home décor. In the last few years she has used genuine antique wood bobbins to put on hearts, trees, and snowmen. She offers these as kits, which includes the bobbins.
Nancy likes the rich look of WoolFelt and the color selection. “The felt works-up so nice; its fun working with it!”
Contact: www.downmemlane.com
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Grab 'n Go Kits, Michelle Civetti
Michelle began a longarm machine quilting company she named My Quilting Service in 2003. Five years later she purchased a die cutting machine with the intention of die cutting quilt kits, but decided to pursue cutting wool felt instead. Her “Grab’n Go Kits” are complete with die cut pieces and backgrounds, floss, needle, glue stick, and even scissors.
“I’ve had a very positive response to this product so far!” exclaims Michelle. “I like the WoolFelt® because of its quality and affordability. I’m very happy with both the product and the customer service.”
Contact: 508-533-3184 • www.grabngokits.com
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Heart
to Hand, Kathi Campbell
Kathi, owner/designer of Heart To Hand, is well known in the quilting and craft industry
for her popular whimsical floral and country designs. She has been a
leading designer for eight years of fabric, wood, and rug patterns. Her designs
Include: wearables, purses, penny rugs, rug hookings, wall hangings, snowmen, angels, and
seasonal swags. Recently, Kathi taught a class in her local California community
where the featured project was a WoolFelt® purse (pictured left). WoolFelt® was
perfect for this application Kathi said, because “it is easy to use, attractive, and
helped keep the class cost down (when compared to 100% woven wool).”
Contact:
714-710-9443 • www.hearttohandpatterns.com
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Heartfelt
Garden, Cindy Nordin
The first creative things Cindy can remember doing as a child are drawing and embroidery. Now after starting a pattern business -- which involves doing those same things-- Cindy feels like she has completed a circle in her life. During her journey, she has designed with much variety including: painting, crocheting, knitting, ceramics, weaving, English smocking, sewing, and quilting. Colors and textures of fabrics have always intrigued her, so discovering wool and WoolFelt ® has been a joy for her.
The co-workers at Cindy’s quilt shop encouraged her to start designing with WoolFelt®. “I was both surprised and delighted to discover that my patterns sold very well, so I have just kept on making more!” Pictured here is Prince’s Feather made from our 100% wool WoolFelt®. It was inspired by an old appliqué pattern, common on quilts dating back to the mid-1800’s. The block is also referred to as Princess Feather.
Contact:
612-790-6046 • www.heartfeltgarden.com
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Heidi Boyd Whimsy Kits, Heidi Boyd
Heidi Boyd is the author of fourteen craft books with North
Light Books, most notably the Simply Beautiful series. She crafts at the
dining room table where she can keep an eye on the family and dash out
the door for the next carpool. Her goal is to make sophisticated design
approachable for and easy for all. Her new Whimsy Kits accomplish just
that. Heidi has a fine art degree and got her start in professional crafting
as a contributor to Better Homes and Gardens books and magazines. Heidi
and her husband Jon and their three children actively enjoy the natural
beauty of their midcoast Maine home.
Contact: heidiboyd.blogspot.com
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Hopscotch Quilt Shop, Elissa and Heather Willms
Heather and Elissa Willms are a mother-daughter design team and owners of Hopscotch Quilt Shop in Coaldale, Alberta. Elissa began the shop when she was 15 years old, balancing the running a part-time business and school by taking her classes online.
All of Heather and Elissa’s designs are created in their two favorite color ways. Heather prefers dark, country colors, while Elissa loves to work with brights. In the summer of 2008 their first book, “Christmas Quilts From Hopscotch” was published. Their second book, “Double Take” will be available in March 2010. Besides the two books, Heather and Elissa have developed a pattern line that reflects their dark/bright tastes. Their patterns are as diverse as their color palettes and include quilts, bags, and pincushions. Speaking of diversity, that one of the reasons they like National Nonwovens’ products. They are impressed by the range of colors and the wool content options, and especially appreciate the price-point on the WCF001 80/20 rayon and wool blend.
Contact: www.hopscotchquiltshop.com • 403-345-3910
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Indygo Junction, Inc
As a leader in the quilts and pattern craft industry, Indygo Junction anticipates popular styles and sets new trends each year. The company publishes patterns and books that provide complete and clear instructions. They seek fresh, talented designers and guide them to create with unique and innovative materials, including WoolFelt®.
Several popular Indygo Junction books and kits feature WoolFelt®, including the Wool’n Whimsy™ kits with pre-texturized WoolFelt®. The kits are a wonderful way to introduce crafters to the pleasures of working with heirloom quality wool/rayon fabric. Indygo Junction also released a comprehensive collection of stylish patterns that are great for introducing needle felting to your customers. Many of Diane McCauley’s patterns in her new Needle Felted Flowers are created with WoolFelt® and embellished with ShadedWisps™. Indygo Junction's Needle Felting Book also offers several unique techniques using National Nonwovens’ products.
Contact: 913-341-5559 or www.indygojunctioninc.com
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Kreative Threads, Karon Trybom and Kayleen Vanover
Karon has been teaching sewing of some kind for 25 years. Her first love is vintage linens,
and any kind of vintage embellishments, so quilting works great with mixing these items. Taking
an old thing and making it with a twist is great fun for Karon, along with searching for the items
and see others make it with different fabrics. Karon recently brought her sister Kayleen Vanover
into the business and they work great together. Adding wool projects to her line is new this year,
but she is enjoying it because it works great with embellishments of all kinds.
Contact: http://kreativethreads.us/
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KWIK SEW Pattern Company
KWIK SEW Pattern Company has been creating home-sewing patterns since 1967. Today there are more than 800 current KWIK SEW patterns available, including the latest fashions and a variety of crafts. They offer the largest selection of patterns for children, men, lingerie, swimwear, active wear, and fleece. With multiple designs and variations provided in every KWIK SEW pattern, there are thousands of sewing projects to choose from. Their new Fun with Felt pattern is made with our bamboo-rayon XoticFelt™ and is one of the No Sewing Required® patterns, so it’s easy, quick and fun!
Contact: www.kwiksew.com
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Lasting
Treasures
Lasting Treasures is the brainchild of two sisters who love antiques, flowers and embroidery—not necessarily in that order. Jan and Jeanne began Lasting Treasures in 1996 and today have a thriving pattern business which takes them all around the world where they sell their patterns and teach about the tradition of Redwork designs. Jan—the elder—is an avid quilter, tatter, knitter, spinner and uses all types of handwork as therapy against the pressures of a professional career. Jeanne, an artist, potpourri witch, and wall-paper queen, has a love of country antiques, specializing in home design.
National Nonwovens’ new bamboo XoticFelt™, WoolFelt®, and rovings has inspired them to create -- and recreate -- a several new lines of exciting patterns. “We were so excited when we got the new bamboo felt that our heads started spinning with ideas. Jeanne’s twin Grandson’s had just gone to the library for the first time so she decided to make a tote for their trips. The totes are easy to put together after felting the bamboo felt. The result of the felting is a great texture and a fabric that is strong enough to survive a book or two going in and out.”
Contact:
920-232-5409 • www.lastingtreasure.com
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Little
Stitches, Debbie Lofgren
Located in California, Little Stitches is an online store that features patterns with a delightful mixture of primitive, folk-art, and a bit of whimsy. Little Stitches specializes in penny rugs, pin cushions, ornaments, dolls, quilts, and more! Debbie has been in business for almost two-decades and she is showing no signs of slowing down. Each year she introduces fresh patterns that keep her loyal customers returning for more.
Debbie enjoys working with WoolFelt® and is impressed by the quality and diversity. “I love National Nonwovens products,” she says. “I particularly like the no-fray edges and the ability to effectively tea-stain the fabric.” Debbie has implemented National Nonwovens’ newest line, the WCF006 100% wool WoolFelt® into her newest pattern line. Shown here is her Spring it On!” ornament pattern that is made mostly out of 100% wool WoolFelt® with a sprinkling of other WoolFelt® styles for accent color. Hanging these ornaments on a primitive white feather tree is a perfect way to welcome the spring season. For a vintage look, add a dusting of mica flakes of translucent glitter.
Contact: 760-480-0624 • www.littlestitchespatterns.com
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Marilyn’s Love Craft, Marilyn Horn
Marilyn has pursued artistic endeavors on several fronts and is very active in quilting and creative designing with fabric base. For over ten years she ran her pattern business with an emphasis on designing kits and patterns with a soft doll theme. Several of her designs won Best-of-Show at Iowa State Fair. Her patterns have been featured in numerous national magazines such Family Circle, Better Homes and Gardens, Crafting Traditions, and Crafts and Things. Since her husband retired, most of Mayilyn’s time has been consumed with relocating and doing “retirement things”. Marilyn and her husband now spend their summers on a quiet lake in northern Minnesota and winters in foothills of the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. She discovered that she really misses her passion for creating and designing and still creates new patterns.
Contact: 218-732-9625 (summer) or 520-818-3472 (winter)
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Millersburg Country Stitchery, Annette Miller
Annette started designing patterns about 4 years ago and incorporates WoolFelt® into many of the designs because she loves the colors and quality. “The ease of working with felt lets you accomplish all types of designs, for many projects,” says Annette. “Our goal is pattern simplicity; the pleasure is in the making. Directions should be clear and precise, for everyone to enjoy.”
Contact: www.millersburgcountrystitchery.net
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Oley Valley Primitives, Bev Stevens
Designer Bev Stevens, of Oley Valley Primitives has been creating a wide variety of craft kits for the hobby and craft consumer for over 35 years. Her unique Santa figures have been featured in national publications over the years with special attention given to the “old world” style Father Christmas and Belsnickle. Her current interests include the designing of over 300 patterns featuring a Penny Rug theme which includes a wide variety of candle mats, shelf scarves, door hangers, 3 dimensional figures as well as pillows and framed pictures. National Nonwoven’ WoolFelt® is in all of the “fabric bundles” included with each kit. Patterns are also available as “instant downloads”, “E” patterns and mailed patterns. Bev enjoys working with National Nonwovens’ fabrics because they are easy to work with, reasonably priced and come in a vast variety of colors.
Contact: www.oleyvalleyprimitives.com
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Palette
Primitives, Sue Allemand
Sue has been designing projects for the craft and creative industries for over 17 years. She is a self-taught artist and is widely known for her folk-art, primitive and whimsical designs. "I LOVE using WoolFelt® in my projects! It adds a feeling of warmth and nostalgia that adds "heart" to every design!" Sue is a monthly contributor to numerous magazines and publications, and has over 200 individual pattern designs available on her website!
Contact: www.paletteprimitives.com
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Pastthyme Patterns, Darci Schipnewski
Darci grew up on a dairy farm along the Minnesota River and attributes much of her designing today to the surroundings of her upbringing. She opened Shades of the Past Quilt Shop in Clara City, Minnesota, which specialized in wool felt, in December of 2002. What once began as a “free” monthly pattern in the shop has grown into what is known today as Pastthyme Patterns. The shop has “Woolie Wednesday” the second Wednesday of each month where new patterns are debuted. Darci uses WoolFelt® almost every month as it is easy to design with, offers wide color selections, is easy to kit, and dye or distress. Darci finds the simplest things in life bring her most pleasure and tries to keep her designs simple as well!
Contact: www.PastThymePatterns.com
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Pearl Louise Designs, Pearl Krush
Pearl loves to design projects that make people smile, and has been for over 20 years beginning with her first position designing projects for a New York lace company. She has designed and produced more than 500 patterns for the quilt industry and written books for Plaid, Design Originals, Krause and DRG/House of White Birches in addition to self-publishing three books. Pearl developed the Pearl Louise Designs pattern company in 1984 and opened up her quilt shop, The Thimble Cottage in 1995. One of Pearl’s favorite sayings is “Happiness is Homemade” and her WoolFelt® patterns have certainly brought many of us happiness. Her irresistible farm animal pincushions, candle-mats and penny rugs will bring a smile to all.
Contact: www.pearllouisedesigns.com
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Penny Lane Primitives, Kathryn Hecker
Kathryn has had an ongoing love affair with sewing since she was in elementary school. Over the years she tried almost every craft out there, especially needle crafts. Knitting, crocheting, and embroidery are among her passions, but more than anything she loves hand stitching. Her desire to find something that she could turn into a profitable business finally blossomed in the form of her whimsical penny rugs. Kathryn started selling her completed designs on Ebay, but found it hard to keep up with the demand. Then after many requests for patterns she decided to give that a try. That's when Penny Lane Primitives was born. She absolutely loves creating new designs and has no intention of stopping any time soon! Kathryn looks forward to the day that she can retire from her job working in an elementary school so that she can devote all her free time to designing. There is something for every season in her line and they are so easy to create! Try one and you'll be hooked!
Contact: pennylaneprimitives.blogspot.com
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Plum Creek Collectibles, Tammy DeYoung
Tammy has been creating crafts with fabric, paint, sand, and putty since childhood. Her passion for whimsical designs — inspired by Early American and Primitive Folk Art — has blossomed into an amazing success story to anyone’s standards. But for Tammy, success means creating characters and patterns that make folks giggle, grin or just plain laugh out loud. These new Retro Snow! ornaments are no exception and will bring plenty of cheer to any tree. She has been doing this for over a decade and today her patterns are sold all over the world and are found in many popular magazines. Her lastest publication projcts include some contagious pillow characters in the 2011, 2010 & 2009 Better Homes & Gardens Holiday Crafts magazine.
Tammy is a big fan of WoolFelt® and especially enjoys the bumpy texture that results from soaking and drying the WoolFelt®. She uses this affect in many popular patterns including WoolFelt® appliquéd candle holders, mantle scarves, advent calendars, wall hangings, and pillows to name a few. She has also designed a spectacular WoolFelt® block of the month project calendar to celebrate the seasons and commemorate National Nonwovens’ 100 year birthday.
Many of Tammy’s patterns are also available as kits, including the Everyday Hang Arounds doorknob hangers. Each kit includes the hangers, and all the WoolFelt® needed to make all three projects.
Contact: 214-335-3387 • www.plumcreekcollectibles.com
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Primitive Stitches, Melissa Towne
Melissa opened her shop, Primitive Stitches, in 2004 and started designing her own pattern line (also named Primitive Stitches) in 2008. “I have always loved to stitch and create things,” says Melissa. “Rumor has it, that I was born with a needle and thread in my hand.” She loves the creative process and encouraging others to discover the art and having the satisfaction of creating things for themselves and to share with their family and friends.
Melissa prefers WoolFelt® because the texture and weight is a superb quality and is very easy to work with. She also loves the large variety of rich warm colors.
Contact: 660-747-7787 • primitivestitch@earthlink.net
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The Raspberry Rabbits, Michelle May
Michelle’s infatuation with rabbits is equal to her infatuation with quilting and stitching. Quilting and stitching provide the keys to the magical place in Michelle’s mind she refers to as “down the rabbit hole.” It’s a very fitting term since her pet rabbits live in her studio, where they run free and enjoy a peaceful life. During the last few years, the works of Hans Christian Andersen has also inspired Michelle to the folk art of the Pennsylvania Dutch and her drawing style is very similar to that art form. It’s a style her customers and blog followers have become smitten with as her Folk Art Fusion projects continue to increase in popularity. WoolFelt is often incorporated into the designs, including her free monthly project named “The Adventures of Harrington and Hannah BOM.” Each month on the 15th, she publishes a new block on her website that features stitching, wool applique and patchwork sashing.
Contact: www.theraspberryrabbits.com
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Rebecca Ruth Designs, Rebecca Anderson
Rebecca Anderson is an experienced pattern designer who specializes in felted wool soft dolls and animals. Her pattern line, Rebecca Ruth Designs, is sold nationally and internationally. Rebecca has contributed to such publications as Better Homes and Gardens Quilting Ideas, Country Sampler, Decorating Ideas, the book Better Homes and Gardens Kids Room Projects, and has designed soft toys for Lamaze Baby Toys. Her projects and designs have appeared in local and national quilt shows, including the American Quilter's Society (AQS) show in Nashville, the National Quilting Association (NQA) show in Chicago, and the International Quilt Festival in Houston.
“I really appreciate National Nonwovens’ products because of the quality, variety, and range of color,” says Rebecca. “The WoolFelt® is a no fuss option for making my soft doll and animal patterns. It is easy to cut, felt, and sew.”
Contact: www.rebeccaruthdesigns.com/
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Serendipity Studio, Kay Whitt
Serendiptiy Studio provides unique appliqué, sewing, needlecraft, and punchneedle patterns. Kay’s first design was released in 2001 and today she continually strives for inspiring new designs that make for fun and enjoyable projects. Her seasonal collections include wearables with a variety of appliqué, needlecraft, and embellishment techniques. Sewing patterns in the Boutique Chic line feature stylish accessories and flattering clothing with a fresh young look.
One of Kay’s most-recent designs implements National Nonwovens’ felt in a brand-new way; as a liner in her Media Frenzy bags and accessories. It’s a great collection focused on storing and carrying digital accessories with lots of attention to detail. Shown here is her GPS Destination Bag lined with bamboo XoticFelt.
Contact: 972-602-3052 • www.sewserendipity.com
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Special Designs, Joni Pike
Joni Pike describes her pattern company as "eclectic and whimsical" offering a wide variety of home decorating designs and children's quilts. She starting sewing in grade school and has been honing her techniques ever since. Joni has been featured on HGTV's Simply Quilts and has published a book with C&T Publishing called Cute as a Button Quilts. Joni's patterns have been very popular and their simple designs appeal to quilters of all skill levels.
Joni's passion for fabric brought her to National Nonwovens' WoolFelt®. “I love the fabric quality and bright colors available! Her new Snowflake pattern is made from National Nonwovens' 100% virgin wool.
Contact: 303-766-4368 • www.sewspecialdesigns.com
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Suzanne’s Art House, Suzanne Wenzlick
Suzanne has a keen artistic sense that was honed in college where she is a graduate of Fashion Design and Merchandising. Her Mother-In-Law encouraged her to pursue a career as an original designer of a pattern business and as a teacher in quilt shops. Since its inception, Suzanne’s Art House has been successful in developing easy to construct quilt patterns. WoolFelt® is incorporated into the majority of the designs. “WoolFelt® is extremely fast and easy to teach because I don’t spend my time folding down hems.” Shown here is one of Suzanne’s tremendously popular lady bug quilt pattern sets made with WoolFelt® called Lucky Lady.
Contact: 760-743-5251 • www.suzannesarthouse.com
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Sweet Chic Design, Susan Cousineau
Like most designers, Susan shared a childhood passion for everything creative, spending endless hours coloring, drawing and designing greeting cards. After receiving a degree in business administration, she launched her own studio and turned her creative passion into a full-time career in product design for the past 20 years!
The Sew Sweet Chic pattern collection is currently licensed with the McCall Pattern Company, with several designs top sellers! Each collection combines cozy textures and playful prints, whimsical motifs, embroidered details and charming trims and embellishments for a distinctive three-dimensional look. WoolFelt® is incorporated into many of the designs in the new Gifts 'n Giggles pattern collection. Each pattern features a coordinating wall hanging and pillow set (the gifts!) and a fun playtime or dress-up accessory (the giggles!). From sparkly princesses, ballerinas and fairies, to magical unicorns, mermaids and teddy bear tea parties, this delightful collection is what little girls' dreams are made of!
Contact: www.sweetchicdesign.com
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Sweet Emma Jean, Katherine Tuohy
Katherine founded Sweet Emma Jean in her early months of motherhood, when naptime was aplenty and her idle fingers were itching to create. Once an architect and now a stay-at-home mom, Katherine was inspired by the need to put something adorable on the equally adorable feet of her baby. Told by many friends to sell her handmade felt baby shoes on Etsy.com, she opened up a shop. Today there are over a dozen different shoe designs available. They are all handmade to order from soft and durable National Nonwovens' WoolFelt. Sweet Emma Jean recently began offering original felt play food patterns and kits so that crafty mommies and grandmas can have the satisfaction of making safe and fun toys for their toddlers too.
Contact: www.etsy.com/shop/sweetemmajean.
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Sweetie Pie Bakery, Jessica Peck
Play campfires with toasted marshmallows, picnic basket lunches, and animal crackers in a circus wagon cookie jar are just an example of the unique line of felt sewing patterns that can be found at Sweetie Pie Bakery. Jessica Peck, the creative mind behind Sweetie Pie Bakery, is an up and coming pattern designer living outside of Milwaukee, WI. She spends her days gaining inspiration from her energetic toddlers, often sewing and designing right on the playroom floor.
National Nonwovens’ products have the quality and consistency that Jessica likes to deliver to her customers. “I am especially fond of the new XoticFelt™ line and look forward to seeing more hues,” says Jessica. “Designers have a strong influence so it is important to lead people in a sustainable direction.’
Contact: http://jessicapeck.blogspot.com
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The Silver Penny, Kathryn Sheehan
Kathryn Sheehan - author, teacher, natural fiber artist and designer - lives in a small town on the beautiful coast of Maine. Her passionate love of sewing and crafting turned into a small cottage business where she designs and create dolls, fairy houses and other natural toys. Her company, The Silver Penny, has steadily grown over the years to now include a line of sewing and craft patterns with the most popular being her fairy houses. “Being a tiny person may be why I’m so fascinated with miniatures and fairies,” says Kathryn. “My series of fairy house patterns is growing into a village as I dream up more designs – it is my passion and keeps me young at heart!”
WoolFelt® is a big part of the small-sized doll-making patterns and kits. Kathryn enjoys the color selection and rich texture. “I love the buttery feel, the flexibility, and the drape of the WoolFelt®”, says Kathryn. “It is so easy to sew. The TOY002 style works especially well for my doll clothing. Your company also has always provided excellent customer service and is friendly and helpful whenever I have questions.”
Contact: (207) 799-2447 www.thesilverpenny.com
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Thistledown & Co., Linda
Zokan
Thistledown & Co. offers an eclectic line of quilt patterns and came into being about a decade ago by Linda Zokan after a lifetime love affair with needle arts. "I love to create designs that will bring a smile to your face", says Linda. She enjoys working with WoolFelt because, “it's wonderful to work with and the array of colors offered are very inspiring!"
Linda has created a variety of interesting and diverse patterns, including Coin Catcher patterns and kits using WoolFelt®. These whimsical little projects are unique and fun to make. A wonderful assortment of WoolFelt® coin catcher designs are available to choose from, such as Kitty, Santa Fe Circle, Color Block, and American Star. Shown here is the Hearts & Pennies coin catcher. Hang it in a handy place to add character and collect your loose change.
Contact: 239-370-8967 • www.thistledownquilts.com
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Whistlepig
Creek Productions, Sue Marsh
Sue’s goal is to make you giggle with her whimsical Whistlepig Creek Productions patterns. Her signature animals have become so popular that some of her contagious characters are now on fabric designs. You’ll still find her famous critters on a fun, heartwarming collection of patterns from bunnies and bears to kitties and puppies.
Whistlepig has produced many wonderful pattern made from WoolFelt and XoticFelt throughout the years. Her latest WoolFelt pattern is shown here. The Potted Penguin Pincushions is a fun pattern that is perfect for the holidays and beyond.
Contact: 303-420-4613 • www.wpcreek.com
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