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Shelagh Jessop is the one-woman-show behind Stuart Moores Textiles, which is named after her great-grandfather. Shelagh is a textile artist and professional natural dyer, specializing in traditional natural dyes and historically accurate dye techniques.

Laura Nelkin lives in upstate New York, where the sunny season is short, leaving plenty of time to be indoors knitting. Though she has a degree in apparel design from Cornell University, she took to knitting years ago and hasn’t looked back.

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.

Bex grew up in her mother’s (Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser) Hillcreek Fiber Studio. She started to learn weaving and dying at a young age and has traveled the country for over 40 years with the family business vending and teaching at fiber, weaving and knitting Shows.

Kelsey Wiskirchen is WARP’s Executive Director, a weaver, embroiderer, indigo dyer, and teacher. She has volunteered with weaving cooperatives in Bolivia and South Africa, and has worked in a number of community outreach programs focused on textiles with art educators, underserved youth, and the refugee community. She holds an MFA in Fiber Art from Arizona State University,

Dia Robinson is the owner of Twisted Urban Fiber Arts, an accomplished indie dyer, spinner, crocheter, and weaver. She has taught at the Greenville Center of Creative Arts in Greenville, South Carolina, and has organized two fiber art gallery showcases at Greenville Technical College’s Benson Campus Art Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina.

Beth Truesdale has been a fiber arts enthusiast for over 50 years! An active spinner and weaver since the mid 1980’s, Beth has been teaching others for nearly as long as she has been involved in fiber arts. With many successful new weavers to her credit, she enjoys sharing these skills with others as much as doing them herself.

Jen Swearington is an enthusiastic, high-energy, knowledgeable educator with twenty years’ experience in surface design and a lifetime devoted to working as an artist. She has operated Jennythreads, an independent handmade fashion studio and crafted a creative living since 2003.

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.

Kim Langley founded YarnStory, an LYS in Honolulu, where she taught hundreds of people to knit and introduced many to the joy of hand knit socks. Currently based in Wisconsin, she developed a fascination with sheep breeds and works with local shepherds and woolen mills to create breed specific yarns; view the results at www.purveyoroffineyarns.com.