Contributors

Susan Beal (Cross-Country Crafter and Balms and Bubbles) is a West Coast crafter who loves sewing, making jewelry, Gocco printing, and writing about it all. She writes a daily craft blog at westcoastcrafty.com and sells her handmade work at susanstars.com. She’s also part of the PDX Super Crafty collective and a co-author of Super Crafty. Susan and her husband, Andrew, live in Portland and Los Angeles, and her favorite things in life are Stumptown coffee, sparkly jewelry, and vintage fabric.

Kate T. Williamson (Japanese Crafts) wrote and illustrated A Year in Japan to the constant beat of the professional bongo player downstairs. Among her many talents, she is a karaoke aficionado, having recently acquired her very own tambourine. Though Kate lives in New York City with her favorite tool, the Staedtler pigment liner, she is currently working on a graphic novel about living in Pennsylvania. katetwilliamson.com

Brookelynn Morris (Buttonology) is a creative force living in Graton, Calif. This year she and her husband, Nat, will vacation in Iceland. It will be lovely. Things she has dropped in the bathtub include: her watch, a gin and tonic, and a portable phone. You’d think she might learn, but no. Brookelynn loves flowers of all kinds, and if you invite her to a party, she will bring you a corsage. brookelynn23.com

Jenny Ryan (Queen of the Misfit Toys) is a kitsch-and-cupcake-obsessed artist and crafter living in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles with her cartoonist husband, Johnny, and their two insane cats, Kang and Kodos. She blogs her various creations at sewdarncute.com and also moonlights as the organizer behind Felt Club ( feltclub.com), L.A.’s popular indie craft fair. She is currently working on a series of retro-hairdo-inspired paintings, and enjoys spending late nights working on embroidery projects while watching reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Timmy Kucynda (Project icon illustrations) is a lovely boy who has a fondness for skateboarding, congas, painting, pool playing, and getting into mischief with his two partners in crime: a leprechaun wife named Claire and a toy fox terrier named Munky. Timmy is a freelance illustrator working and living in San Francisco. He likes to keep his work close to his heart.

Diana Eng (Japanese Punk Shirt, Mizuhiki Knot, and Origanimals) is a techie fashion designer and New York City resident whose apartment and cubicle are the same size. Before heading to swanky parties in the West Village, she buys oversized clothes at H&M and re-engineers them to make cool little outfits. She’s been known to subject her models to wearing bathing suits made of balloons and staples and strapping vacuum cleaners to their backs. She’s currently creating a chef jacket with thermochromatic ink (patterns appear as the temperature rises) for a fashion food charity event. dianaeng.com

British expatriate Peter Sheridan (Master of the Pinhole) has worked for the past 21 years in Los Angeles as a foreign correspondent, covering the West Coast for newspapers and magazines in the U.K. “I’m settling in, and starting to find my way around,” he says. With his photographer wife, Susan, he has crafted two daughters, but claims his greatest crafting achievement is in making a monumental mess of his office. In his spare time, he wishes he had more spare time.