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Al Harder-Hyde
Vergennes, VT
· Fiber · Knit/Felt/Stitch/Crochet
Long time knitter! Active in Addison County's Spinning Guild. I moved to Vermont to be closer to family in 2020. I currently live in Vergennes with my partner, 4 cats and an eight year old Chihuahua.
I am a weaver who loves time on my loom to create pieces for friends and family and for myself. I've always been attracted to fiber arts of all kinds and enjoy exploring and learning new ways to create with fiber.
AnnMarie is a mostly self-taught crafter who has worked in many media. A children’s book editor and writer, she moved to Vermont from Brooklyn in 2021. For many years, she sewed and sold sock monkeys for a small NYC-based nonprofit that organized fine art and craft exhibitions and workshops for underserved artists, including seniors, those in recovery, and the unhoused. She also once organized a community art project for kids that involved weaving on old CDs with recycled yarn.
These days she experiments with needle and wet felting, knits, and weaves a bit. She is excited to join the fiber community at the Craft School, where she aims to learn as much as share her skills. She lives in Shelburne with her two kids, one husband, and a very old cat.
Arianna Soloway
Burlington, VT
· Fiber
Arianna is a knitter, knitwear designer, and manager of Must Love Yarn in Shelburne VT. She's been knitting for nearly 25 years and loves teaching knitters of all ages and skill levels.
Bradie Hansen
Shelburne, VT
· Fiber
Bradie Hansen is a fiber crafter, artist, author and psychologist. She was raised in northern New Jersey and Southwest Florida, and came to Vermont in 1996 to go to graduate school at St. Michael’s College. Vermont became her home after that. Always having some knitting project going, in 2011/2012, she started crocheting, then spinning wool, and then weaving. She’s taught fiber art classes at the Shelburne Community School and is passionate about making fiber art accessible to all people. She is excited to work with students on all things wild and wooly and textured on handlooms, rigid heddle looms, circular looms and anything else that provides support to a warp.
A student of Lausanne Allen’s, Bradie loves floor loom weaving, too, and will be around to help students with their projects.
Bradie’s current work is both on her floor loom and on “found” looms, like those made out of driftwood and one made out of a wooden door pane. Bridging her loves of psychology and handcrafting, Bradie is compiling a series of tapestry weavings and other handwork pictures that will become a shawl depicting “golden moments” in her life, a project part of her Weaving a Life © journey. She is also the co-author of The Long Grief Journey which is about long-term and unresolved grief.
Bridget Kerr
Shelburne, VT
· Fiber · Knit/Felt/Stitch/Crochet
I am a fashion and textile historian eager to participate in the textile crafts that I have spent so many years learning about!
Caitlin Elberson
Charlotte, VT
· Fiber
Mama. Lover of practical beauty. Shepherdess, knitter, homemaker. Fermenting vegetables for Sobremesa during business owners.
Hi!
I'm a Material Science PhD student developing plant-based commercial materials.
When I'm not busy with school, I like to cook, snowboard, travel, backpack, write, and play board games.
I've always dreamed of making my own furniture! Cheers to beginning my journey. :)
I have often said that my greatest strength as an artist is my very low standards! I love learning new things, and the best way I have found is to get comfortable with being bad at them. My lack of focus means that whenever I have the opportunity to try something new, I jump at the chance, and I am always excited to pass on whatever I have learned! I have been making art in all kinds of media for most of my life. After growing up in Washington, DC, I moved here and graduated from the University of Vermont in 2013 with degrees in Studio Art and Classical Civilizations. I have worked in clay, paint, charcoal, ink, glass, fiber, wood, watercolor, and anything else I can think of! I work as a baker and, occasionally, as a yoga teacher and live in South Burlington with my spouse, our cats, and arguably too many plants.
I have been a handspinner since 2019, and now I've acquainted myself with the properties of wool I am ready to dive into weaving. I believe crafting using natural materials is an act of magical transformation and essential to the human relationship with the physical world.
I am a ceramics student. I am also a knitter and like DIY projects.