Editor
Feeling Stitchy's editor and founder, floresita is an avid stitcher, knitter and crafter. You can see some of her stitching in Embroidered Effects
and on her blog. Her version of Edward in cross-stitch was featured in Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight. Yes, that's silly. She still thinks it's kind of awesome. She also collects vintage embroidery patterns.Floresita is the admin of the Flickr Embroidery group, which she started up in 2006. She continues to admin, write, and design here. But "founder" sounds so weird and formal and "admin" sounds so cold and managerial. So she's trying out "editor," which more aptly describes what she does here. She's very happy to meet you. Now, go make something. :)
Contributors
Jo features new embroidery patterns each Sunday on Feeling Stitchy, and is always discovering something new for us. She contributed the "Microbe Hankies" project in Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery
. On her personal blog, Lacer’s Life, Jo blogs about craft, food (growing it as well as eating it), books, and her family. She has a fledgling shop called Mrs. Lacer’s Attic where she sells hand embroidered pieces.
John Adams is a hand stitcher, quilter, sewist, husband, dad, and all around crafty guy (not in that order!) His blog, Quilt Dad, has become a popular destination for modern quilters, largely because of his inspirational projects as well as his down-to-earth, approachable style.
John is also a founder of Fat Quarterly, a new e-zine for modern sewists and quilters that is chock full of original patterns, project ideas, articles, and interviews with fellow members of the online crafting community. John is a self-taught embroiderer and organized the popular Hoop Up! Stitch & Send Swap on Flickr. John is inspired by the work of the many talented stitchers that follow Feeling Stitchy and is proud to blog here!
Pam has been a moderator for the Needlework boards on Craftster since 2004 and is the lovely star of the Craftster Quickies video series. In her spare time Pam likes to make silly craft videos and blog and play with her three pups and her wonderful husband.
She is a lover of all things vintage but has a particular fondness for vintage embroidery patterns, which she collects every chance she gets. When she is not stitching, she makes a mean cocktail and will probably bake you cookies if you ask. She has an etsy shop, Three Jacks Design.
Guest Bloggers
Jenny Hart is an artist, designer and author. After first trying embroidery in the summer of 2000, she founded Sublime Stitching "This Ain't Your Gramma's Embroidery" to introduce alternative patterns and resources for stitching. Hart is the author of Embroidered Effects (Chronicle Books) and seven additional titles on embroidery.
Her work has been published and exhibited internationally, most recently with a solo show of embroidery-inspired drawings at Galerie LJ in Paris, France. In 2012, her embroidered work La Llorona will become a part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Collection. After ten years in Austin, Texas, Hart relocated to Los Angeles, California where she plays with her 2 year-old niece every chance she gets.
Penny Nickels is a printmaker that started playing with needles with tremendous effect. She and her husband, Johnny Murder, have been described as the “Bonnie and Clyde of Contemporary Embroidery”. She writes about needlework history for MrXStitch.com and her work has been published in Fiberarts Magazine Summer 2011, PUSH Stitchery: 30 Artists Explore the Boundaries of Stitched Art by Jamie Chalmers, and Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery by Leanne Prain. She also runs the This Is Handmade video project as well as her personal blog Donkeywolf.