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Sharon Costello
has been a fiber artist for twenty years and has specialized in feltmaking
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Patsy Sue Zawistoski enjoys all the possibilities of creating with handspun yarns. She
has enjoyed every facet of textiles since learning sewing as a 4th grader and weaving as a new bride. Twenty-some
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Jeannine Bakriges, a Detroit native now living in Whitingham, Vermont, is an enthusiastic
hand-spinner, natural dyer, knitter and former co-owner of a mail-order fiber supply
business. She happily gets to pass on exciting tips and techniques in these areas as the resident fiber artist
at Adams Farm. Each week of the year, she can be found teaching at the Saturday Spinning Bees and
Sunday Knitting Circles. In addition to teaching and naturally dyeing Adams Farm’s own
yarns, she writes regularly for Spin-Off Magazine; has work featured in Interweave Press
books, has written a chapter for "KnitLit Too," published by a division of Random House,
and will be featured in the third book in the KnitLit series as well.
for seventeen. She is well known for wonderful needle felted art dolls and felted vessels. She
has studied feltmaking in the U.S., Turkey, and Scandinavia and shares her knowledge of the craft by
teaching workshops throughout the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. She has also produced a
video on her unique doll making technique. Sharon’s work has been featured in
Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot, Echoes, North American Felters Network, Cloth Doll Magazine, Soft
Dolls and Animals Magazine, Hudson Valley Magazine and a wide range of fiber guild and doll makers
newsletters.
Amy Oxford specializes in punch needle rug hooking, which she learned when she
worked as a rug hooker for McAdoo rugs in North Bennington, Vermont. She is the
founder of Red Clover Rugs, a rug hooking shop, school and mail order business which
is now located in Oregon. She is the inventor of The Oxford Punch Needle, a contributor
to Rug Hooking Magazine, a member of the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild, and is past president of
The Vermont Crafts Council. She is a graduate of the Northern Vt. School
of Fiber Arts and served for four years as resident artist at the Vermont State Craft
Center at Frog Hollow in Middlebury, Vt. Amy has worked as a licensee for The
Shelburne Museum, making adaptations of their antique rugs and has helped catalog
the museum's collection of over 400 hooked rugs. Oxford's work ranges in size
from doll house to room sized rugs and stair runners. She has developed a successful
teacher training program and has taught all levels of punch needle rug hooking for 18
years. Her work has been exhibited throughout New England. Oxford is the
Author of "Punch Needle Rug Hooking" and "Rug Hooking Today" by Schiffer Publishing.
