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Laura Kenney: Keeping Rug Hooking Traditions Alive

Laura Kenney creates hooked rugs with whimsical designs, featuring everyday objects. She has an appreciation for the traditions of rug hooking in the past, when people made them with what they had at hand, and incorporates second-hand wool clothing into her designs. “When you see a bolt of new wool, there’s no personality to it. […]

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Elly Green: Clothing Brand Experiment

Clothing Brand Experiment is the creation of Elly Green. She’s gone from sewing hoodies in her apartment to a successful Toronto-based company, producing high-end unisex clothing. CBE is committed to sustainable and ethical production, with all products made in a 50 km radius of the company’s downtown studio. Since emerging in the Toronto fashion scene […]

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Jenny Hildebrand: The Felting Penguin

This week’s interview is with Jenny Hildebrand of The Felting Penguin. A desire to create led Jenny to experiment with weaving, sewing, quilting, pottery and woodworking, but when she began working with wool she was drawn to it immediately, and began making and selling beautiful felted scarves that are full of texture and organic in […]

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Carol Swinden: Pictorial Quilts

Time to introduce another talented member of my family! This is my sister Carol Swinden, who creates amazing pictorial quilts. Like fibre paintings, these are quilts that hang on the wall. Her style is realism, and some of them indeed look almost like photographs. The quilts are made up of many different types of fabric, […]

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Shirley Jones: Traditional Quilter

I thought it would be fun to start doing features on  some of the talented, creative people I know. Quilters, painters, photographers, knitters, writers… I’m curious about what got them hooked on their particular art or craft and what inspires them. Who better for my first interview than my mum, a master quilter. She has […]

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