Karen Davis – Karen Davis has been a fiber enthusiast since 2000 and fiber artist since 2004. She specializes in spinning, weaving, wet-felting and needle-felting with fiber from her own animals including alpacas, angora rabbits and llamas. In addition, in homage to her Danish heritage, she creates one-of-a-kind Viking weave necklaces and bracelets with wire-wrapped semi-precious stones.
Her love of animals and nature led her to a career teaching high school biology, specifically AP Biology. She is happy to discuss animals and/or biology with you!!
Diana Foegelle – Hi, I’m Diana. I am the owner of The Painted Alpaca. I love fiber arts. I started crocheting when I was 10 years old. Crochet is no longer pigeonholed for home projects. While I love knitting, weaving and spinning, crochet is my first love. I would love to open your horizons and show you the world of Tunisian Crochet.
Mandy Zeigler – Mandy Zeigler is a talented and versatile artist with a passion for teaching. With over 20 years of experience in the arts, Mandy has honed her skills across a wide array of mediums, including woodcraft, needle arts, needle-felting, and painting. Mandy’s approachable and encouraging teaching style ensures that each student feels supported and inspired to unleash their creativity. Her commitment to fostering a welcoming and nurturing environment allows learners to confidently experiment and develop their artistic abilities.
Jo Watts – At age 5, I announced to my family that I would be an artist when I grew up, and I never gave up on that promise to them and to myself. Primarily, I am a 3-D and clay artist – both sculpture and pottery. Additionally, I paint in watercolor and dabble in craft work when it’s fun! After working with a master Batik artist, Said Sarkasi, in Singapore, I developed a modified technique that works better for me. For about 14 years, I have been improving on this artform. I love the feel of silk; the vibrant colors and the instant gratification of creating a work of art on fine fabric. Unlike working in clay, I don’t have to wait days for it to dry, hours of firing, cooling, and more hours of glazing and firing and cooling again. After traveling the world for 35 years, I now reside and work in Bastrop County, Texas. I’ve lived in 12 US States and have moved my family to foreign countries 5 times. It makes me proud to say that I am an international artist.
Kaberle McCord – Kaberle has been crocheting for 22 years, learning from her great-grandmother who taught her to make chains and she made chains that could wrap the Earth 5 times. Then her Oma taught her a simple crochet stitch but nothing more. Well fast forward several years, YouTube became a great learning platform so she learned some more crochet techniques but never really stuck with it. Then when she was 17, she lived in New York and that’s when she became deeply involved in crocheting. Moving back to Texas, she stumbled upon Unraveled and started working there and is currently still there!
She learned to knit in 2019 to further her knowledge to help knitters and not just crocheters. Her love for fiber and color pairing is something she loves to talk about. Among her travels, she likes to collect and find small businesses to support.
Marti Swanson – Marti Swanson is an award-winning artisan who has worked in a variety of tactile mediums. The discovery of felting and fiber arts brings together a melding of Marti’s passions from sculpting, playing with color and the tactile art of creating with fiber. She has always been curious and finds the path of learning and experimenting to be a continual source of creative inspiration. Her approach to teaching is to explore and discover while having fun. Her reward is seeing the excitement in students as they challenge themselves and succeed.
Mary Cresson – Mary has been crafting for over 65 years, settling on mainly fiber crafts in the last few decades. She teaches classes in crochet, Tunisian crochet, macrame, needle tatting, off-loom beading, and kumihimo, among others.