Retired from a medical career, Denise resides in Flat Rock, North Carolina. She has been an avid garment sewer since childhood, and has taken classes and studied through out her adulthood. Since retiring, Denise has extended this passion into pattern-making and dyeing and printing the fabric with which she  loves to work.

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Julie began hand sewing around age 9 and received her first sewing machine at age 12 as a Christmas gift. Her textile art is inspired by living in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Julie's one-of-a-kind art creations consist primarily of batik and hand-dyed fabrics, along with surface design and unexpected embellishments. Her teaching experience includes adults and children for many years in NC along with other states.

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As a young maker recently graduated from Warren Wilson College, Daniel is excited to expand their work in traditional handcrafts! Daniel received instruction in several fiber art traditions, predominantly weaving, needle-felting and natural dyeing, while working as a member of the Fiber Arts Crew under the esteemed Melanie Wilder. While in their final year on the crew, as the student crew leader, Daniel organized all workshops conducted by the crew and taught several as well. Daniel has been a passionate, lifelong bird-watcher and their love of birds is reflected in their work. Daniel's experience as a bird-watcher allows them to create incredibly detailed pieces. Daniel looks forward to passing on their expertise to their students and spreading their love of birds.

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Kirsten has been creating with her hands since she was a small child sitting on her grandmothers lap moving the bobbins rhythmically to make lace. Over the years she's explored many fiber arts including sewing, embroidery and rug hooking. More recently she has added weaving, raising sheep for fiber, and basket making to her repertoire. Most likely to be found exploring the natural world around her or making something. Kirsten discovered rug hooking many moons ago when brought to her first fiber arts fair with her mother. Always one to explore new modalities and skills she fell for rug hooking because of its ease and simplicity. Now Kirsten plays with both the designs of others, and also creates her own rug hooking patterns and brings her ideas to life. Some designs she loves are considered classics and others are a more modern take on this primitive art. She's have fun lately playing with adding texture within individual colors.

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Nichole is the owner/creator of the small clothing brand, Wood Thrush Workshop. Nichole creates garments using only the most environmentally conscious textiles - linen, wool, and sometimes hemp and cotton. Nichole is committed to crafting garments that are not only sturdy and functional for everyday wear but also evoke a sense of folksy and heartwarming magic - to make getting dressed each day a true joy. Prior to creating Wood Thrush Workshop in 2022, Nichole worked 20 years as a Montessori guide/preschool teacher. Working with young children offered daily opportunities to create meaningful relationships, provide thoughtful encouragement, and the ability to breakdown projects into small, approachable tasks. Nichole brings patience, encouragement, and presence to each sewing student so that they may develop the confidence to create in a joyful manner.

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Giovanni is a designer and patternmaker, who is originally from Chicago, and graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts focused on Fashion/Apparel. He has over 25 years of experience in the fashion industry and worked in NYC for 16 years with brands including Gary Graham, Monse, Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Jeffrey Dodd, Lein Studio, Norisol Ferrari, Bonnie Young, Electric Feathers, Outlier and Protagonist. Giovanni is currently freelancing and lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Giovanni has taught courses in patternmaking and design at colleges in the Chicago area and at Penland School of Craft.

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In Silver's family, creativity skipped a generation, so when her grandmother realized she loved crafting she encouraged Silver by teaching her how to use a sewing machine and buying her embroidery kits. Some of Silver's happiest memories are of sitting with her grandma as they crocheted rag rugs, sewed yoyos, and made Christmas ornaments out of ribbon and styrofoam eggs. When she was in college, she picked up crochet in earnest and, began to crave nicer and nicer yarns. Eventually she decided to try spinning her own yarn, and this led to an ever-expanding passion for all aspects of fiber arts! She dyes, crochets, and weaves amongst other fiber arts, but her specialty is spinning crazy art yarns using fibers and materials ranging from wool and alpaca to faux cobwebs and dog fur to basket filler and tinsel. She has done many live videos on social media performing these experiments, teaching lesser known spinning techniques, and demonstrating tips and tricks she has learned while spinning. She enjoys sharing her knowledge with others, and her teaching style is very interactive.

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Barbara grew up in the Philippine Islands where she studied with backstrap weavers at the Easter School in northern Luzon in 1971. She also wove with a master Guatemalan backstrap weaver both as a student and as an interpreter. Additionally, she wove on an inkle loom, employing intricate pick up patterns, some traditionally Filipino. She studied floor loom weaving, dyeing and other fiber related techniques at Haywood Community College as part of their Professional Crafts Program between 2013 and 2015. As a teacher of Spanish and English as a Second Language for over twenty years she has always enjoyed incorporating arts and crafts of the cultures studied. Barbara's weaving reflects her Asian roots, uses vibrant colors from natural dyes whenever possible, and often contains wool from the flock of sheep she and her family raise on their farm in Big Sandy Mush, Leicester, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, a shearer, and where they raised their three children, and now two grandsons.

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Sam has been garment sewing for 20 years. The most complex the garment, the more likely she is to sew it. She especially loves vintage patterns because of their design details. Along with sewing she also knits, crochets and cross stitch. Sam often says, if a craft stays still long enough she'll try it. By day Sam is an online language tutor so she loves to cross over her 10 years of teaching experience with the joy she finds in sewing. She understands sewing can be daunting to many people so she wants to help make it as approachable as possible and has taught many people to sew and follow sewing patterns over the years, helping them get started on what she hopes will be life-long love of creating.

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As a young girl, Marilyn’s craft passions included basket weaving, sewing, knitting, and crocheting. In adulthood, she continued these hobbies but has taken them to an advanced level and added triangle, square, and floor loom weaving as well as stain glass. She is a member of Sun City West Weavers Guild where she teaches regularly weaving classes while she shares her time in Arizona. She studied weaving under Madelyn van der Hoogt’s weaving school and taken several classes at Folkmont. Marilyn is also a member of the Local Cloth here in Asheville where she serves on the education committee and teaching weaving classes as well. Marilyn has taught weaving at local guilds, including Sun City West Weavers and Local Cloth Asheville.

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Eileen has been growing Japanese indigo and researching fresh leaf, non-vat techniques since 2006. She has obtained the primary and secondary colors and shares the recipes in a digital booklet, Ice Water Indigo, and in workshops locally and nationally. Eileen has taught spinning cotton on the charkha and natural dye classes at John C. Campbell Folk School, for fiber guilds and conferences across the country, at Local Cloth, and at SAFF. More recently she has developed marbling inks from natural dyes and is teaching that locally and at conferences.

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Kate is a consummate crafter enjoying fiber arts - knitting, crocheting, sewing, felting - along with many other fun crafts such as fused glass, metal smithing, eco printing and Gelli printing. Starting in mid 2025, Kate has been teaching Beginning Crochet, Crochet Beyond Basics and Beginning Knitting at Blueridge Community College, Transylvania campus. Kate has also lead wire/bead crochet classes with the local Club Smiths group (part of Henderson County Gem and Mineral Society) as well as at various bead shops in Charleston, SC.

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Sue is a textile artist with 40 years experience in weaving, dyeing and teaching. Her journey in weaving began at East Carolina University and she has continued learning new techniques by experimenting and by studying with fiber artists such as Madelyn Van der Hoogt, Alice Schlein, Barbara Cooper, Donna Sullivan, Jozef Bajus, Laura Sims, and Holly Brackmann. She also studied at the Penland School of Crafts and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Sue was a juried member of Gallery 209 in Savannah, GA, Fiberworks Gallery and The Potomac Fiberarts Gallery in the Torpedo Factory of Alexandria, VA, and Studio Fiberarts at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA. She has recently rejoined Local Cloth. Her work has been accepted in juried shows throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, most recently at The Blackrock Arts Center, the Creative Crafts Council, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, The Art League of Alexandria, VA, and The Workhouse Center for the Arts. She worked with the staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on the Hyperbolic Crocheted Coral Reef project. She taught weaving and dyeing at Armstrong Atlantic State University and taught workshops for The Blue Ridge Fiber Guild, The Weavers Guild of Greater Baltimore, The Piedmont Fiber Guild, Interweave Press YarnFest and more. She offers a variety of workshops as well as private & small group lessons.

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Lorri has been living in North Carolina since 1993 and in Mars Hill since 1997. She has a farm with goats and sheep. Lorri has been spinning and knitting for roughly 42 years. She has taught as SAFF, John C. Campbell and various yarn shops over the years.

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Maker and educator, Leigh has owned a handbag company, created and managed a maker space, and is currently the Education Coordinator for The Carolina Textile District, as well as Product Development Director at Sew Co. in Asheville. One of the three founders of Open Studio Patterns, you can find her on their YouTube channel hosting sew alongs as well!

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Betty has been weaving tapestries for 30 years. She has won awards for her work from the American Tapestry Alliance, Handweavers Guild of America, the Blue Ridge Fiber show and the Australian Tapestry Workshop. She has been a member of the Southern Highlands Craft Guild since 2018. Betty Hilton-Nash started her tapestry career as a contract weaver at Pam Patrie Studios in Portland, Oregon in 1990. Over the years she has studied with leading tapestry artists Archie Brennan, Jean Pierre Larochette and Philip Playe of the Gobelin in Paris.

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Born in Denmark, Yvonne Rainbow began crochet, knitting and sewing around age 6 under her mom and grand aunt’s guidance, and continued her studies of art & craft at a boarding Art & Craft Folk School in Denmark, making hands-on creating a lifelong passion. She moved to rural Black Mountain in 1999 with her husband and son, immersing herself in the neighborhood community Earthaven out there, while she homeschooled her son using Waldorf principles. In 2005 she launched her first creative business Joyful Murals, and in 2012 started Artsy Goddess Studio, an up-cycled clothing line thriving in RAD Asheville and Black Mountain stores. Yvonne Rainbow facilitated her first silk paint workshop in 1989 during her Art School years in Denmark, and since 2000 has hosted women circles in her home and under the stars sharing stories, crafts and songs, celebrating women’s own quiet strength. She’s been facilitating craft workshops in her studio and home since 2006, inspiring and encouraging women and children with hands-on creativity, fostering wonder with natural materials like yarn, fabric and found objects. In 2011 she began teaching vocal Toning workshops at the UR Light Center in Black Mountain. Since 2023 she’s taught workshops for women and girls hand-sewing their own re-usable fabric pads. Her gentle and enthusiastic guidance helps beginners relax and trust their skills, turning craft into joyful and meaningful exploration.

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Jess has her Masters degree in Craft Education and makes a full-time living from teaching workshops in fiber arts & textiles! Truly, a dream life for a passionate teacher and maker. She owns the studio in West Asheville dedicated to color on fabric, WAXON Batik & Dye Studio. Jess spends most of her making life in knitting, weaving baskets, batiking with hand carved woodblocks, and sewing & altering clothing. She maintains happygocrafty.com and waxonstudio.com. Is there anything better than combining printmaking with dyeing? I think not. I have been carving simple lino blocks and printing them on hand dyed fabric for almost 20 years. It is my sincere pleasure to bring these skills to folks new to either or both.

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Claudia has enjoyed a life-long love of fiber and fabric, She has made clothing, costumes, toys and made alterations since her teens. She also put her hand to embroidery, beading, appliqué, needlepoint and macramé. Her current love is working with wool. She makes an assortment of felted critters and paints with wool, (pictures to frame). Claudia has been sharing her love of wool with other fiber lovers for the past 6 years. She especially loves to teach beginner needle felting. In her class you will leave with a finished creation and a new addiction!

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Emolyn is an artist, musician, and dancer. She grew up in Brasstown, North Carolina and discovered her love of craft at a young age observing the artists in her community. She learned from her mother about raising sheep, natural fiber, and to knit without patterns which led her to spinning and natural dyeing. A graduate of the professional craft program in jewelry at Haywood Community College, Emolyn is interested in the cross-section of fiber and metalsmithing, how to create a softness in something structured like metal, and how to create sculptural art with knitting techniques. She is a community-minded teaching artist who blends her passion of music, dance, and craft to empower others to discover confidence, creativity, connection and understanding. Emolyn serves as the Summer Camp Coordinator, working with kids and youth at Local Cloth.

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Aaron is a multimedia artist, Reiki healer, and activist with a special interest in working with textiles. She has been passionately involved in local and international communities as an artist, organizer, and educator. For the last decade, Aaron has continued to deepen her commitment to racial healing in the United States through a variety of antiracism programs. Aaron uses her artwork to engage viewers in self-reflection and to imagine how we can move towards a more equitable and liberated future for all. Aaron McMullin founded the Legacy Quilt Project in the Fall of 2023 as part of her MFA thesis from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She has extensive experience facilitating and participating in antiracism programs. Through her MFA, she learned to combine her passions of art and activism in both her personal art practice and her community engagement work.

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Lynne is a life-long fiber enthusiast and a retired Education professor. Her retirement move to Asheville was fueled in part by the fiber community and the opportunity to expand her skills and techniques. She found Local Cloth early on and has been involved in many ways with this wonderful collective of fiber folks. Lynne loves January when there are specific beginner classes offered for the New Year. She primarily teaches knitting, crocheting and embroidery/crewel classes. She also continues to take classes, both to expand her skills and to remember what it is like to be new at something!

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Rebecca discovered Temari after retiring and looking for the right handwork to engage in. Before that she had done computer programming, weaving, bobbin lace, and had a small baking business before going back to school and getting a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Anthropology. Her research ranged from suffering and pain to religious games and toys. After fifteen years of full-time teaching at Merrimack College (Massachusetts) she retired as a full professor and chair of the department. She fell in love with Temari, a Japanese form of embroidery, and now spends her time thinking about colors and design instead! She earned Levels 1 & 2 certification from the Japan Temari Association (JTA) in 2019. Rebecca has done various forms of handwork most of her life, including weaving and bobbin lace. Her teaching experience includes teaching full time for fifteen years at Merrimack College (Massachusetts). She has been making temari for 7 years and earned Levels 1 & 2 certification from the Japan Temari Association (JTA) in 2019. She has taught temari workshops previously at Local Cloth and is hoping to develop a group of fellow temari makers so she can teach an intermediate workshop!

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Ann loves making coil baskets! Ann made my first coil basket in the 1960's with directions she found in a pamphlet. It was not, though, until many years later, when retirement was on the horizon that she decided to pick up the craft again. Fast forward five years later: Ann is a full-time fiber artist and became a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild in January of 2022. From baskets to bowls to wall décor and now replica bird nests, Ann has found something unique and fun to do, and enjoys sharing the art of coil basket making with others.

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Amy is an Asheville-based fiber artist and educator. She works primarily with wool, yarn, felt, and thread. Her work explores tiny moments of joy found in the natural world, translated through her vivid sensory experience as an autistic artist. Amy has been a professional artist since 2018. She was named one of The Rising Tide’s 20 On The Rise in 2019. In 2023, her solo show Beneath the Surface was featured on the Hello, Rose City! Artist Corner on KGW in Portland, Oregon. Amy studied both art and education in college. She has taught students from kindergarten to retirees in classrooms, museums, galleries, and local community centers. Amy has been a fiber artist since she was 6 years old and loves sharing her knowledge and experience with others.

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Local Cloth Resident Artist, Lisa Sandberg is the artist behind Studio 510 Fiber Arts. She is a dyer, continental style knitter, rigid heddle weaver, E-spinner and fledgling hand stitching enthusiast. Currently in her 36th year as a Registered Dental Hygienist serves her patients in Asheville 4days a week while growing her fiber arts business. She plans to create, teach and continuing to learn in the vibrant Western North Carolina fiber arts community for many more years. Lisa has taught knitting, e-spinning, rigid heddle weaving and multiple dyeing classes and workshops in the Asheville area since 2022. Knitting classes range from learn to knit, advanced beginner skills advancement and pattern reading to knitting two-at-a-time socks. Simple knits, spins and hand woven fabrics are her go-to as she prefers to let her hand dyed yarns and fibers be the stars of the show. She looks forward to sharing her love of creating colorful fun in multiple disciplines with her students.

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Tommye Scanlin has been weaving tapestries for over thirty years. She is a member of Southern Highland Craft Guild and Piedmont Craftsmen and Professor Emerita of the University of North Georgia. Tommye often teaches workshops and is the author of three books: The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver (2020); Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond: A Guide to Planning and Weaving with Confidence (2021); and Marking Time in Fabric and Thread: Calendars, Diaries, and Journals (2024). Scanlin is Professor Emerita, University of North Georgia where she began the fiber program in the early 1970s. She has taught numerous workshops for John C. Campbell Folk School, Arrowmont, Peters Valley, and Penland as well at Convergence and Florida Tropical Weavers Conference.

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Beth is a self-taught fiber artist focusing on working with wool and natural fibers. Most of her felting pieces are 3-D animal and whimsical figures but she also enjoys felting landscapes, making art batts and spinning art yarns. Beth served as the first manager of the Local Cloth Retail Shop, launching the store and Retail Committee. Beth has also served on the Local Cloth Board, teaches workshops and is currently spearheading Local Cloth's first retail booth at the 2024 annual Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair. After years in professional sales and service, Beth began her own business, Curly Furr, on Etsy in 2011, and has reached over 21,000 sales. When Beth is not at her home studio you can find her dyeing wool, spinning locks, and felting just about everything at the Local Cloth Studio as one of our Resident Artists. Her work can be found on Etsy and in the Local Cloth Retail Shop.

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Mary holds a BFA in Fashion Design and has worked in NY’s fashion district under a burgeoning designer, as a tailor for Colonial Williamsburg’s Costume Department and a costume designer for community theater. She taught sewing and art to curious and distracted minds in middle school and private lessons. When it was a new thing, Mary started a sewing blog and YouTube channel, The Daily Sew, to explain away all the confusing bits about sewing. Mary continues to teach sewing and patternmaking in person and virtually and always has too many sewing projects going on at one time. Her spark is lit when she can teach anybody how to sew, sew better, or just fix their favorite sweater.

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Elizabeth has been raising some form of four-legged animals (sheep, goats, llamas and alpacas) and two-legged animals (chickens and geese) since moving to her current acreage near Weaverville in 2001. “ Hobby” is the important word in her farm name: this work is a passion for Elizabeth. She settled on Jacob sheep (heritage breed) as her primary stock and long wool breeds that include Border Leicester, Cotswold and Blue Faced Leicester cross. Elizabeth sells breeding stock, raw fleece, handspun and millspun yarns, roving for hand spinners, hand-dyed rovings and locks in her studio at Local Cloth. She also enjoys teaching beginning spinning workshops.

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

After living and teaching around the world for 30 years Joyce is happily settled into life in lovely Western North Carolina. Her travels have exposed her to many fiber traditions and she has always found groups of fiber folks wherever she was to share her making with. Joyce has 20+ years teaching design, sewing, knitting, quilting and bookmaking and Natural Dyeing to High School students and adults. She has studied fiber and book arts at Penland, Arrowmont and the Center for Book Arts in New York City. She is also a Master Gardener and tends a natural dye garden at the Buncombe county extension office. She teaches natural dyeing and other fiber arts at Local Cloth, John C Campbell and the North Carolina Arboretum.

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Sofia is a queer mixed media artist living in Hillsborough, North Carolina. She originally learned how to embroider with her grandmother, and came back to the art form 25 years later with a more abstract approach. Sofia has taught intuitive embroidery workshops around the triangle for several years. Her workshops create a non-judgmental space for exploration, learning, intuition, and connection. In classes, she encourages students to tap into a sense of play, and openness as they learn basic embroidery stitches and beading application.

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Donna started weaving with the Paumanok Weavers on Long Island, New York in 1982. She got a loom from her husband as a wedding present and continued with that group for over 10 years, even serving as Co-President for one year. Donna has also been a member of the Spinning Study Group of Long Island and a craftsperson at Hallockville Historical Farm Museum in Riverhead, New York. She created a summer camp crafts program for the farm and wrote a grant to teach colonial crafts to 4th graders in her home school district where she taught Special Education. In 2000, Donna started her own business, Donna Lee Fiber Arts, purchasing her first 2 alpacas while attending Rhinebeck Fiber Fair. She has taught at over 20 libraries on Long Island and offered workshops in knitting, painting on silk and felting. When she moved to Asheville, Donna worked at the Black Mountain Yarn shop for several years, teaching workshops there and at OLLI center at UNCA. Donna is currently an adjunct instructor at AB Tech. She teaches fiber arts crafts to Intellectually Challenged Adults in their Adult Basic Education Program. Donna is interested in sharing her crafts with the public and promoting fiber art and farming.

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Stacy Vajta is a writer, artist, and creative facilitator based in Asheville, NC. Through her work at Sacred Art & Story, she guides women—especially those in midlife—on a journey of self-discovery through soulful, intuitive art-making. Her workshops blend creative play, personal ritual, and storytelling to help participants reconnect with their inner wisdom and creative spark. With a warm and welcoming style, Stacy creates spaces where meaning, magic, and a little bit of mischief come to life. Stacy has over five years of experience teaching creative workshops, including spirit doll making, needle felting, and intuitive collage—all designed for both beginners and experienced students alike. She offers clear, hands-on instruction while encouraging participants to follow their own creative impulses. Stacy’s teaching style is nurturing, playful, and grounded—ideal for adults looking to explore both craft and personal expression. Her classes consistently invite students to slow down, create with intention, and discover the quiet magic in their own hands.

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Vasanto has working with wool and color since learning to knit as a child. She uses wet-felting techniques for hat-making, bags and wall hangings, and nuno-felting to make flexible fabrics for scarves and clothing. Vasanto also dyes her own wools and silks to use in her work. Vasanto has studied with Beth Beede, Chad Hagen, Jean Hicks and others. She teaches in many settings, including the Southeaster Animal Fiber Fair (SAFF), Local Cloth and her private studio.

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Catherine Wingate is the creator, author and designer of two collections of the original sock-of-the-month pattern collections and journals [The Sock Calendar: Socks for all Seasons and The Sock Journal: Knit the Year in Socks] and has been demystifying and teaching sock knitting and design for many years. She is also a sailor interested in knots and traditional marlinspike skills. Her interests in knitting, knots and sail riggings evidence an ongoing fascination with what can be created with "sticks and string" and the overlapping history of these. She has taught knitting and knit design and written on both. Her first sock design collection, The Sock Calendar: Knit the Year in Socks, was favorably reviewed by Vogue Knitting as a book of sock patterns that was also a journal and multi-year calendar.

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Betty Ann is a fiber artist working primarily in Nuno felting. At times she incorporates stitching and weaving to make one-of-a-kind pieces of art made of fine wools, silks, and assorted fibers, often using vintage and upcycled fabrics. She is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, where her work will be exhibited and sold through the Allanstand Craft Shop at the Folk Arts Center in Asheville. She finds peace and inspiration in the gardens and woods that surround her home and studio in the foothills of the North Carolina Mountains. Betty Ann Winters was the Floriculture Technology program head at Randolph Community College and taught Floral Design & Horticulture Therapy classes for 16 years. She currently teaches Art in an after-school program at the Rock School Arts Foundation in Valdese NC. She spent several years teaching crafts to developmentally disabled adults in Morganton, NC.

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