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NATIONAL NONWOVENS
Book & Publication Projects
We cherish the many endorsements from the leading designers in the Quilt and Craft Industry. Thanks to their enthusiastic support, our products have appeared in countless publications and wonderful project books.
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Pineapple Towel Holder by Deb Arch from the August 2010 issue of Create and Decorate |
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Free Online Projects
Crafts'N Things
Wool Felt Snowman by Mary Ayres.
Stitch this fuzzy-and-fun stocking alternative the recipient can use all winter long! Go to project.
Creative Home Arts
Holiday and Celebration Projects by Various Designers
Many Wool Felt and Wool Wisps projects appear on the Creative Home Arts site so check back often. Some of the newest projects inlcude:
- Baby ornaments
- Needle Felted Bear
- Felted Puppy
- Gingerbread Christmas Coundown
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Annie’s Keepsakes
Homespun Tree Ornament by Vickie Clontz
Here’s a free pattern for an easy project anyone can make! This homespun wool felt ornament can be hung on your Christmas tree, doorknob, or used as a gift. Go to project.
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Dragonfly Pin by Vickie Clontz
Adorable dragonfly project incorporates WoolFelt® Motifs for the wings and a bead and wire body. Go to project. |
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Recent Publication Projects |
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Better Homes & Gardens®
Holiday Crafts 2009 Issue
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Crafts'n Things
April 2010 Issue
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February 2010 Issue
December 2009 Issue
- Beaded tree and bell ornaments: by Linda Wysznski
- Needle felted snowmen: by Heidi Boyd
- Poinsettia and Snowman bread wraps/wall hangings: by Melony Bradley
- Holiday Food pails: by Melony Bradley
- Placement Advent calendar: by Melony Bradley
- Felted pine tree decor: by Heidi Boyd
- Merry Berlap pilows: by Melony Bradley
- Vitage Snowman Decor: by Rebekah Meier
October 2009 Issue
August 2009 Cover and Inside
June 2009 Issue
- Whismisical Flower Pillows: by Rebekah Meier
- Fluttering Friends Quilt: by Sweet Chic Design
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Create and Decorate
August 2010 Issue
- Pineapple Towel Holder: by Deb Arch
June 2010 Issue
- Toaster Cover: by Deb Arch
April 2010 Issue
- Grandma's Flower Garden Runner: by Deb Arch
February 2010 Issue
- Snowy Day Cardinal pillow : by Deb Arch
Holiday 2009 Issue
August 2009 Issue
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Quilting Arts Stitch Publication
Fall 2009 Issue
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Quiltmaker
November/December 2009 Issue
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Quilts and more
Spring 2010
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Today’s Creative Home Arts
November/December 2009 Issue
- Holiday Pillows: by Lorine Mason
- Retro felt ornaments: by Debra Quartermain
- Dove Tree Skirt & Stocking
- Needle felted snow birds: by Debra Quartermain
January/February 2009 Issue
- Embroidered Felt Heart by Alice Okon
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Totally-Creative
Fall Holidays 2009 Issue
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Recent Book Projects |
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A Touch of Felt
by Lynne Farris
Dress Up Your Home with Colorful Felt Accessories
• Add flair to any room with 22 color-rich felt projects
• Learn all the different ways to work with wool felt-hand or machine needle felting, wet felting, sewing with felt fabric, even felting with silk
Surround yourself with these vivid wool felt accessories. From photo album covers and felt “paintings” to picture frames, candleholders, footstools, table accessories, and more, you'll find the perfect project to brighten your surroundings-or give to someone special.
Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Book (2007)
by Karina Hittle
Set the stage for a magical Christmas with this collection of merry decorating, gift giving, and entertaining ideas.
From traditional and contemporary trees to tempting sweets perfect for your next holiday party, you'll find everything you need to create a heartwarming celebration. WoolFelt® is featured in special holiday ornaments including two-toned white tassels, two-toned red tassels, white doves and red cardinals.
Christmas with Artful Offerings
By Karina Hittle
Delicious Cookie-Cutter Designs for Quilting, Sewing, and Punchneedle
When the holidays arrive, let your needle and thread become your measuring cups and baking bowls! Create festive decorations and gifts using classic Christmas cookie shapes as your inspiration.
19 of the 20+ projects feature WoolFelt® and include ornaments, a table runner, place mats, stockings, note cards, and more.
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Christmas Quilts from Hopscotch
By Elissa and heather Willms
Take a topsy-turvy Christmas tour!
You'll find fourteen projects: seven in a folk-art style and seven bright and modern. Make holiday tree skirts, Advent calendars, stockings, lap quilts and patchwork balls.
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Creative Classics: 250 Playful Continuous-Line Quilting Designs
By Laura Lee Fritz
Rev Up Your Hand or Machine Quilting With Fresh Versions of Favorite Motifs.
Make your quilt sing with these exuberant new variations on 5 classic quilting motifs. Master quilter Laura Lee Fritz shows you dozens of fresh takes on clamshells, waves, serpentines, and feathers. Helpful tips show you how to make the most of each pattern. Laura uses WoolFelt® variations into these classic designs. |

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Embellishing with Felted Wool
By Mary Stori
16 Projects with Appliqué, Beads, Buttons & Embroidery.
Wild about wool? You'll love making and embellishing these cozy accessories. This book
features 16 delightful WoolFelt® decorative projects small enough to take with you and work on anywhere. Easy-to-work WoolFelt® is even easier with Mary's innovative, foolproof construction and edging methods. The styles and colors include traditional, folk art, contemporary, hip, and cute as a button. |
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Fabric Art Collage—40+ Mixed Media Techniques
Mix It Up with Dozens of Exciting New Ways to Create Mixed-Media Fabric Art
• Everything you ever wanted to know about mixed-media fabric collage - the techniques, the supplies, the fun of creating!
• Learn more than 40 original techniques, each illustrated with step-by-step photos
• Test-drive your new skills with 5 small quilt projects
Have you ever melted crayons onto muslin? Painted wool felt with bleach? Heat-embossed quilt batting using lace? Rebekah Meier has, and she shows you how to create fabulous fabric collages with these techniques and many, many more.
Fast, Fun & Easy® Needle Felting": 8 Techniques & Projects — Creative Results in Minutes!
By Lynne Farris
Creative Wool Accents are the Latest Way to Play!
Today's hottest trend is easy, addictive, and portable. This book is a great beginner's guide to crafting's new craze-needle felting. You’ll learn in minutes everything you need to know about tools, materials, and techniques! Try all kinds of materials, including WoolFelt®, wool yarn, roving, and other natural fibers. This book has a project for every technique including easy stencils and a stained-glass effect.
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Fresh Felt Flowers: 17 Stunning Flowers to Sew & Display
By Lynne Farris
Fabulous Flowers-Never Need Watering, Always in Bloom!
The flowers are so lifelike, you'll want to reach out and touch them! Now you can make them yourself, even if you're a beginning sewer. The secret is WoolFelt® and simple fabric sculpting techniques created by expert Lynne Farris. The book includes 17 complete projects with patterns and easy-to-follow instructions. Toss in a few everyday craft supplies and you'll be well on your way to creating your own glorious, stitched flower garden.
Excerpt:
“Recently, I've discovered the joy of fabric sculpting with WoolFelt. It comes in an amazing array of colors and is sturdy and sculptable. It is delightfully easy to work with because it cuts cleanly and doesn't fray, eliminating the need for turning seams - every step of the process is simplified.”
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Indygo Junction’s Needle Felting
By Amy Barickman
Beautiful Projects to Create in Wool: 22 sophisticated-style projects ranging from simple to fancy.
Are you new to needle felting or looking for some fresh inspiration? The uniquely stylish designers at Indygo Junction have projects for everyone! This is a complete instructional and inspirational guide for both hand and machine work. National Nonwovens’ products are included in multiple projects in the book. |
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Needle Felted Flowers
By Diane McCauley
Make Your Own Needle Felt Flower Pins. In this Indygo Junction book, five WoolFelt® flowers are beautifully created with National Nonwovens’ Shaded Wisps needle felted embellishments. Use a special needle or tool along with wool fiber and yarns to add depth and dimension to these easy felt flowers. Just a few hand-stitches and a bit of craft glue finish them off. |
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The Art of Needle Felting on Wearables
By Barbara Crawford
16 Needle Felting Designs for Wearables. Barbara noticed a lack of projects combining the needle felting technique with wearables and fashion handbags so she decided to put a book together. Her book, The Art of Needle Felting on Wearables, has color photos of wonderful wearable patterns such as jackets, sweaters, duster coat, handbags, flat surface and dimensional wallhanging. She uses National Nonwovens’ products almost exclusively.
“With needlefelting, you’re not just limited to small projects. Even if you don’t have a machine, you can accomplish all the projects in my books with a needle and your two little hands.” |
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The Designer
Associates
- about the artists
Below is a partial listing of some of the prestigious designer associates who mention National Nonwovens’ felt fabrics and products specifically in their magazine and book projects.
NOTE: Please see out Pattern Partner list for the companies who implement our materials into patterns.
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Madeline Arendt
Madeline is a freelance designer and member of the Society of Creative Designers. Mny of her designs have won top honors. Madeline enjoys being hired by companies as either a demonstrator, project designer or teacher. When she is not busy representing companies, she takes time to teach classes at area stores. Her latest accomplishments include the publication of her first book, titled “Altered Art, for the first time™”, published by Sterling/Chapelle and having a table runner project featured in Crafts n’ Things.
Contact: (847) 741-6563 • madelinejean@earthlink.net
Sharon Baum
Sharon Baum has been creating and teaching others since she can remember. She uses all kinds of mediums to create vintage-like rugs, dolls, and seasonal items, with WoolFelt® being her favorite fabric. Sharon enjoys working with WoolFelt® because of its color, texture, and durability and incorporates it in her penny rugs, tree skirts, tablemats, and hooked rugs that regularly appear in leading craft publications such as Create and Decorate.
Contact: 660-747-9446 • roseofsharon28@hotmail.com
Heidi Boyd
Heidi is the author of ten books with Northlight most notably the Simply Beautiful Series. She crafts at the dining table where she can keep an eye on the family and dash out the door to make the next carpool. Her goal is to make sophisticated design approachable and easy for all. She has a fine arts degree and got her start in professional crafting as a contributor to Better Homes and Garden books and magazines. Please check out her newest eco friendly title - Craftcycle. Look for her at www.mycraftivity.com
Melony Bradley
Melony is a full-time craft designer/professional who has been selling finished crafts featuring original designs for 10 years. With a career background in consumer and business-to-business marketing, she excels in promoting creative products to consumers and inspiring them to purchase craft products. Her extensive background in trade shows and sales presentations allow her to provide services such as teaching classes and product demonstrations at trade shows. Melony is currently specializing in Kid’s Crafts, Home Décor, Paper Crafts, Needle Arts and Seasonal Crafts. She has also been published extensively in national craft consumer magazine and other media.
Contact: 901-482-2813 • www.mel-designs.com
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Vickie Clontz
Every now and then, we meet a designer that embraces the spirit of innovation that goes into every National Nonwovens’ craft and hobby products. Vickie Clontz is one of those treasured designers, as proven in the inspiring and original methods in which she manipulates our WoolWisps needle felting products. She uses a fun technique to turn the rovings into beads that she then turns into a variety of unique beaded jewelry. Several of her designs were recently published in Giftmaker magazine. You can purchase Vickie’s patterns directly through her online pattern store, Annie’s Keepsakes.
Contact: 704- 279-7714 • www.annieskeepsakes.com
Barbara Crawford
Barbara of Crawford Designs, uses her talent to design affordable patterns and kits using old clothing, vintage material, and affordable fabrics, including WoolFelt®. Her book, The Art of Needle Felting on Wearables, has color photos of 16 designs and patterns such as jackets, sweaters, duster coat, handbags, flat surface and dimensional flowers. She uses National Nonwovens’ products almost exclusively. She has also published a second book entitled Needlefelting—Something for Everyone!
Contact: (816) 413-8506 • www.crawforddesigns.net
Pamela Curo
Although designer Pamela Curo has a background in art including a BFA in costume design for the theatre, living in remote North Country surroundings in Minnesota has perhaps inspired her the most when she creates a new design. Many of Pam’s designs have a traditional “lodge look” and will add charm and warmth to any home. Pam’s new pattern, Cardinal and Blooms, not only was featured on the cover of Quilt Almanac 2008, but is also sold through her pattern company, Cotton Tales.
Contact: 218-675-5281• www.cottontales.net
Tammy DeYoung
Tammy’s whimsical designs are so popular, you’ll sometimes see them charming you from the cover of today’s most popular publications while you’re standing in the check-out aisle. To make her characters in her home decorating projects come to life, Tammy often uses a variety of WoolFelt hues… as she did on the holiday pillows that were designed exclusively for Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Craft issue. To learn more about Tammy’s WoolFelt patterns, please visit our Pattern Partner page
Contact: 214-335-3387 • www.plumcreekcollectibles.com
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Lynne Farris
Lynne Farris brings a lifetime of experience in a variety of creative media to the world of fabric arts and do-it-yourself decor. Her designs have been featured in leading consumer magazines including Family Circle, Sew News, Sewing Savvy, Paper Creations, Scrapbooking and Beyond, and Better Homes and Gardens. Lynne has made several guest appearances on nationally televised programs including "The Carol Duvall show" on HGTV, "Lynette Jennings Design" on the Discovery Channel and "Paint, Paint, Paint!" on PBS. She works as a creative consultant to several leading manufacturers, and has appeared at international and national seminars as a teacher and spokesperson.
Author of several books on fiberarts, her latest books are Fast Fun and Easy Needle Felting and Fresh Felt Flowers, published by C&T Publishing. Both books incorporate National Nonwovens' materials in all of the projects. She uses WoolFelt in many of her other designs as well, including the vibrant bouquet of flowers shown at the top of this page.
Contact: 404 202-5654 • www.lynnefarrisdesigns.com
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Laura Lee Fritz
Laura Lee Fritz is widely known for her hand appliqué quilts and her fanciful wholecloth quilting filled with narrative images from the stories surrounding her life which includes raising bluetick hounds and Navajo-Icelandic sheep in rural Montana. Laura is a well-known long arm quilter and her book, 250 Continuous Line Quilting Designs published by C&T, sold out immediately after its release and is now into the second printing. Her encore book, 250 MORE Continuous-line Quilting Designs, is newly released and is also a hot seller. WoolFelt® is featured in many of Laura's books, including her new book, Mindful Meandering and its chaser, Creative Classics.
Contact: 707-987-4870 www.lauraleefritz.com
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Karina Hittle
The work of Karina Hittle, founder of the design studio Artful Offerings, specializes in the creation of craft, quilting & stitchery "pattern from folk art to fancy"™. She has been featured in Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting, Create and Decorate™, and Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Crafts magazines, among many others. Her goal is to create an artful and memorable experience for her customers, which evokes an element of excitement and surprise, from the moment they first see her patterns thru the entire creative process! Karina, along with her husband Audie, is also one of our VIP Pattern Partners.
Contact: 978- 846-1632 www.artfulofferings.com
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 books and magazine projects throughout the years.
Contact: 303-420-4613 www.wpcreek.com
Rebekah Meier
For over a decade Rebekah has professionally established herself as an author, designer and artist in both the craft and quilt industries. Her designs have been featured in numerous publications, and she writes columns in both Create and Decorate and Crafts'n Things magazines. With a love of fiber and collage she has combined both together creating Fabric Art Collage 40+ Mixed Media Techniques. Her inspiration comes from urban architecture and geometric design. In her free time she likes to experiment with new mixed media techniques, incorporating them into collage and art quilts.
Contact: www.rebekahmeier.net • www.rebekahmeier.net/Blog.html
Debbie Mumm, Inc
Debbie Mumm blends nostalgia, humor and charm into every wonderful design she creates. Many of Debbie’s images recall romantic American country scenes and themes designed in a sophisticated style that is timeless in appeal. Debbie celebrates the emotional connection to the past, and through her art, creates cozy and serene places that help people cope with the stress of today’s busy lives. This celebrated designer and author loves sharing her kind-hearted vision of the world in her quilting and decorating how-to books, and in her craft, gift, and home products enjoyed by people worldwide.
Contact: www.debbiemumm.com • 509-466-3572
Cathy
Pendleton
Cathy creates some of Indygo Junctions most popular patterns, kits, and project books.
She began her business when she stayed home with her newborn son, but still needed
an income. In her words, necessity became the mother of invention and
she decided to take her family and friends advice to sell her homemade gifts.
Since then, Cathy branched out to design home décor, clothing, and soft sculpture
collectibles. Her favorite fabric
WoolFelt®! She loves how WoolFelt®
holds its shape and how wonderfully appliqués.
Contact: 913-341-5559
www.indygojunctioninc.com
Debra Quartermain
Sewing has been a life-long passion for Debra. Although Debra has been a pattern business owner and Butterick designer, she has reinvented herself and now mostly designs sewing and craft projects for magazines and books. Her favorite areas of design are wearables and home décor, especially needle felting projects. Debra is promoting her needle felting techniques through teaching with wool rovings from National Nonwovens and STYROFOAM™ brand products from Dow Chemical. Several of her designs have been recently highlighted in Crafts'n Things. “I love needle felting and am addicted to it at the moment,” says Debra. “There’s so much potential for design and one of my favorite mediums is WoolFelt®.”
Contact: www.debraquartermain.com debra@debraquartermain.com
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Phyllis Sandford
Phyllis, owner of Totally Tole, has her hands into a number of different mediums, needle felting, felting, crocheting and knitting. She has been a freelance designer and author for the last 20 years and has published a number of magazine articles and books, including her most recent WoolFelt® project in Make It Mine Magazine. Phyllis has a wide range of teaching experience which includes everything from trade show seminars to teaching her 10 grandchildren crafts. She has fun doing it all and also designing project sheets and “make-it take-its”.
Contact: 845-831-3935 • Totaltole@aol.com
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 for her Cabin Creek Design company. She soon started designing wool appliqué patterns.
Faye is also 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
Jan Speed
Although Jan has come from a long line of fabulous quilters, drawing and painting have always been more of a passion for her. Jan uses her talent to design many stunning WoolFelt patterns for her A Piece of Work Pattern Company. Several of her designs have also been featured in Fons and Porters “Love of Quilting” magazine.
Contact: 318-354-9591 • www.apieceofworkdesigns.com
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Mary Stori
Mary is an internationally recognized quiltmaker, author, fashion designer, instructor, lecturer, and quilt show judge. She was awarded 2004 Teacher of the Year by The Professional Quilter. Mary has written extensively, and her award-winning work has appeared in scores of quilt magazines and publications, and has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. She has appeared on HGTV's Simply Quilts, Sew Perfect, and Fon's & Porter's Love of Quilting. She designed the Mary Stori Collection for Kona Bay Fabrics, as well as her own line of stencils for Quilting Creations.
Her newest book is "Embellishing With Felted Wool features 16 delightful WoolFelt® decorative projects small enough to take with you and work on anywhere. “I love the process of beading on fabric, so I'm always looking for new and faster ways to start that process,” says Mary. “That might explain my attraction to WoolFelt®. Part of its appeal is that it is soft and cozy, but I especially like working with felted wool because it’s not necessary to turn under the edges for appliqué. Best of all, this material is a perfect backdrop for beads and buttons that contribute to the design by adding color, texture, and sparkle.”
Contact: www.marystori.com
Blog: www.marystori.blogspot.com/
Janet Wagner
Janet has the honor to be included in the distinguished group of 200 American craftsmen who comprise the juried Directory of Traditional American Crafts® published by Early American Life Magazine. Her interest in American folk art design stems from a lifelong study of American decorative arts, antiques, and textiles. Featured in the June issue of Early American Life Magazine, Janet’s Spring Chickens Penny Rug is a reproduction of a wool table rug made in 1850 using WoolFelt®. Traditional penny rugs were made with scraps of wool and wool felt and were stitched using appliqué and embroidery techniques. Janet used the colors of the original rug by implementing various WoolFelt® colors. Janet sells her designs through her pattern company, A Slice of Heritage.
Contact: 585-467-1229 • www.asliceofheritage.com
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Kathy Wegner
Along with numerous
magazine and book projects, Kathy Wegner's 550+ designs have been
seen on manufacturer websites and project sheets, in kits, iron-on
transfers and display samples. Kathy enjoys utilizing a wide variety
of arts and crafts supplies in her creations. Trying new product
combinations provides an exciting challenge. Equally at ease
creating children's craft projects or altered art, Kathy's designs
can be classic and elegant or bright and simple, detailed or
streamlined. Kathy uses WoolFelt®
and National Nonwovens Needlefelting products in her designs.
Contact:
(970) 669-3378 •
kat2kraft@yahoo.com
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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Linda Wyszynski
Linda - owner of Hearthside Creations LLC - is a freelance needlework designer, teacher, canvas painter and consultant. She had been designing professionally for over 20 years and has contributed needlework designs to numerous hardcover books & craft magazines. Linda creates designs in appliqué, bead embroidery, cross-stitch, embroidery, needlepoint, silk ribbon and textured embroidery. She uses National Nonwovens WoolFelt® as a ground fabric, for appliqué, bead embroidery, embroidery and silk ribbons designs. Along with designing for publications, Linda currently teaches two correspondence courses for the Embroiderer's Guild of America. She is also a member of CHA, TNNA and EGA. She currently serves on the CHA Designer Section Council.
Contact: 763-545-1009 or 763-229-0434 • Linda@HearthsideCreations.net
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