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Crystal Hesser has been spinning yarn for over a decade. She’s a regular contributor to Ply and Tiny Studios Magazines and is the creative mind behind Spin Up Girl. She shares her fiber exploits on Instagram at @spin_up_girl. Her specialties are inspired art yarns and supported spinning, but is also well-versed in traditional styles.

Eileen Hallman has been spinning, weaving, and dyeing cotton with natural dyes since the early 1980's. She uses her handspun as weft in her weaving and either dyes the fiber before spinning, the yarn before weaving, or the fabric after weaving. She also dyes and marbles silk.

Chris Robbins developed a love of broom making at age fourteen when he began working in the broom shop in Renfro Valley, KY. As a high school senior, he was allowed to spend half his day at home making brooms for himself. While in college, he restored an 1860s log cabin to house his broom shop.

Sydney Sogol, the weaver and dyer of Syd’s Threads, explores color and pattern interactions in her work. She creates one-of-a-kind and limited edition pieces inspired by her years of studying art, ornithology, and marine biology. Each piece pays homage and brings attention to that creature’s natural beauty and unique story.

Julie Benac has been in the world of fiber arts since 2006, and has been in the cut & sew industry for over 30 years. Her creative focus today is marrying the art of fashion sewing with fiber arts to create a unique niche that appeals to everyone.

Martha Owen is an artisan/shepherd and resident artist at the John C Campbell Folkschool (www.folkschool.org) in Brasstown, NC. She oversees classes in spinning/knitting,crochet/feltmaking /surface design and dyeing. Her adventure in spinning began here in 1978.

I have been working as a knitting and crochet teaching artist since 2009. I am a Craft Yarn Council Level 1 and 2 Certified Knitting and Crochet instructor, and I have experience working with beginner through advanced level knitting and crochet students. I have worked with students as young as 11 years old online and in an after-school setting.

Patricia Sanville lives on a small farm in Frederick, MD., where she has been for 15 years, raising a family and raising sheep as well as various other species of livestock and crops. Patricia is on the Maryland Sheep Breeders Association Board of Directors and also serves as the Director from Maryland to the American Sheep Industry.

Deborah Robertson has no doubt that she stems from a lengthy line of spinners, weavers, seamstresses, embroiderers, and embellishers all the way back to prehistory. The daughter of a YWCA Camp Director, she was most often found in the Arts and Crafts cabin.

Cecelia Campochiaro appeared on the knitting scene in 2015 with her debut book, Sequence Knitting. Knitting was a casual pastime until she had an ah-ha moment in 2010 and realized that interesting textured fabrics could be created by the simple repetition of a sequence of stitches. Sequence Knitting is about texture, and her second book, Making Marls, is about color.