Diane Gilleland, also known as Sister Diane, organizes the Portland Church of Craft. She also produces CraftyPod, a podcast and blog about making stuff.

When she’s not crafting lesson plans, Fiona Gillespie knits, sews, quilts and visits the second-hand and vintage shops of the world.

Betsy Greer is a writer, thinker and crafter living in North Carolina. When not busy making things, she writes about the ethical side of crafty life at craftivism.com.

Alexis Hartman is an illustrator and self-proclaimed remedial crafter born into a very crafty family in Los Angeles. Her work can be found at greenbluegreen.com.

Wendy Jung, The Singing Librarian, designs sweet and simple accessories using vintage buttons, shiny beads, and unique souvenirs from the past, found at singinglibrarian.com. She earned her moniker while working at an interior design firm, organizing their library and taking liberties with the office intercom.

In 2003 Leah Kramer created the online community craftster.org as a haven for people who love to make stuff but who also love to break the traditional rules of crafting. She’s also the author of a book on kitschy crafts from the 1950s and 60s called The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts.

Faythe Levine works under the moniker Flying Fish Design, based out of Milwaukee, WI. She also owns a brick and mortar shop called Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery, is the founder of Art vs. Craft and is the producer and director of Handmade Nation.

Meredith MacDonald lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys all manner of domestic arts, especially sewing, knitting, baking, and collecting Blythe dolls. Her work can be found at paperdollygirl.com.

Bethe Mack is an enthusiastic crafter, part-time actor/musician, reiki healer, and chihuahua lover. She divides her time between Portland, Oregon and the rest of the universe.

Jessee Maloney-Townsend resides in Baltimore City, Maryland, where she designs one-of-a-kind jewelry in her home and runs her online shop artschooldropout.net.

Sarah Minshall is a quilter, crafter, knitter, and maker of all things fabric-related. She keeps tabs on what she makes at her blog, Hip to Piece Squares:hiptopiecesquares.avenueb.org.

Kathy Cano Murillo (a.k.a The Crafty Chica) is a book author, TV personality and syndicated newspaper columnist. She is addicted to glitter and all things sparkly, and runs the websitecraftychica.com.

Megan Nicolay is the author of Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt (generation-T.com) and a founding member and secret craft agent for the Department of Craft (departmentofcraft.com). She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her sewing machines, typewriter, and her teacher man, Luke.

Torie Nguyen is a member of PDX Super Crafty (pdxsupercrafty.com) and the owner/designer of Totinette Accessories (totinette.com). In her spare time, she co-organizes the Crafty Wonderland sale in Portland and helps her husband Quentin with his t-shirt company,Monsieur T.

Shannon Okey is the author of the Knitgrrl series, Spin to Knit, Felt Frenzy, and many other crafty books. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where her studio is filled with sweaters just waiting to become other things.

Rebecca Pearcy is the designer and founder of Queen Bee Creations, a handmade accessories company that’s been in business since 1996. She loves sewing, knitting, gardening, cooking, and making music.

Jennifer Perkins keeps herself busy running her online jewelry company Naughty Secretary Club, being a member of the Austin Craft Mafia, hosting Craft Lab and Stylelicious on the DIY Network and producing the Stitch Fashion Show and Guerilla Craft Bazaar.

Linda Permann is the founding Craft and Decorating Editor for Adorn
magazine and blogs at lindamade.com. She loves making things, reading, thrifting, and visiting national parks.

Christy Petterson is a crafter, designer and writer from Atlanta. She is co-editor ofgetcrafty.com, organizes a craft market called the Indie Craft Experience, creates her own line of clothing and accessories, a bardis, and in between all the craftiness she enjoys working full-time in public relations.

Tricia Royal hails from San Francisco, California. An artist, fashion designer and writer, she is obsessed with sewing, knitting, crocheting, and thrift shopping. Her fashion-focused blog and website live at bitsandbobbins.com.

Julian Quaresima is in elementary school in East Meadow, New York. He loves drawing, karate, playing with his friends, and making jewelry with his Aunt Susan.

Jenny Ryan is a kitsch-and-cupcake-obsessed artist and crafter living in Silverlake, California, with her cartoonist husband Johnny and their two insane cats, Kang and Kodos. She is the owner of SewDarnCute.com and moonlights as the organizer behind Felt Club, LA’s popular indie craft fair.

Southern California artist Laura Stokes runs Charcoal Designs, a showcase for her vintage-inspired designs.

Jenn Sturiale crafts, tinkers, writes and codes using fabric, paper, wire, computers and lots of glue in Brooklyn. She is a founding member of the Department of Craft, and her work can be seen at muchdesign.com.

Kayte Terry is a stylist and crafter living in Brooklyn with her husband and her rabbit/muse, Potato. Find out more about Kayte’s crafty exploits at thisisloveforever.com/blog anddepartmentofcraft.com.

Raised in Montana in a family of artists, Caitlin Troutman has been making things since she can remember. After going to school for painting she found herself in the woodshop.

Nicole Vasbinder lives in Petaluma, California and is the designer of the Queen Puff Puffhandbag and accessory line. She also teaches sewing and crafty business classes throughout the Bay Area.

Jessica Vitkus wrote a recycled crafts book called AlternaCrafts, developed projects for the “Martha Stewart Living” TV craft department, and has written for several of Martha’s magazines. She lives in New York’s East Village with her blacksmith/sculptor/Texan boyfriend, and embroiders whenever possible.

Kelly Wiglesworth is a writer and yoga teacher living on California’s Central Coast who’s been making jewelry for more than ten years. She brought her bead bag as her luxury item on the first season of Survivor, and used the hemp rope to lash a hut together, invisible thread to catch fish, and made necklaces and bracelets for everyone with shells she found on the island.

Jessica Wilson is a color junkie, a hoarder of kitsch and an erratic baker. A native Californian, she currently lives in the Los Feliz Village with her ukulele-playing better half, who often teams up with her to craft the night away.

Emilie Zanger is a Chicago writer and the former DIY editor of Venus Zine. Her day-job alter ego is a restaurant publicist, so it’s no surprise that her favorite crafty pastime is concocting elaborate meals from her numerous cookbooks. Emilie and her sister (and talented co-contributor) Jessica grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio.