The CraftSanity Podcast

This week's guest is Matthew Stinchcomb with the art and craft selling web site, etsy.com.

Melinda Barta, author of "Hip to Stitch" is this week's guest.

Got a knitting problem? Lisa Kartus, author of “Get Your Knit Fix,” likely can fix it.

Marie Kare is the brilliant creator of the Sampler, a marketing and promotional tool designed to help indie business folks get exposure.

Claudine Hellmuth has worked very hard to make a life for herself as a professional artist and the cool part is she’s willing to tell us how she did it. Claudine travels the country teaching art workshops and makes art in her home studio.

Rhonda Simmons talks about all kinds of wild stuff: art parties, body casting, artist trading cards and her latest venture... Outsider Art in a Box.

Melanie Falick is editorial director STC Craft Melanie Falick books. We chat about her popular knitting books, her adventures in writing, her career in publishing and we even talk a little bit about the flying trapeze.

Today we’re going to hear from Nilda Callanaupa, (Calanyopa) 46, the wonderfully skilled weaver who founder The Center for Tradicional Textiles of Cusco, Peru, Richard Ashford, the managing director of Ashford Handcrafts and Jane Patrick, former editor of Handwoven and author of “Time to Weave.”Jane is currently the sales manager for Schacht Spindle Co.

Debbie Stoller, the co-creator of Bust magazine and author of the Stitch 'N Bitch books, including her latest crafty publication, "Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker."

Amy Karol has several craft Web sites, including the Angry Chicken craft weblog documenting her creative life.

Linda Permann is living the ultimate crafty girl's dream in the Big Apple. She's 26-year-old craft and decorating editor for Adorn magazine, the new craft SOHO publication that just hit newsstands this summer. Tune in to find out what it's like to be a craft trend-spotter who gets to bring funky and fun crafty goodness to the masses. Linda is going tell us how she landed her cool gig and how you c...

This week I’m going to bring you a chat with Heidi Kenney, the crafty woman behind the web-site and online shop My Paper Crane. She’s a mother and maker who creates whatever she wants out of fabric.

Interview with Betz White, a fashion designer, knitter and felter, who creates her products with recycled sweaters.

Tune in this week to hear a chat with Gayla Trail, designer, photographer and creator of www. YouGrowGirl.com, the fantastic everything-garden website. She's a crafty girl with a green thumb growing her own in Toronto.

If you knit and you own an iPod, this week's guest needs no introduction. Pour yourself some tea and grab your knitting because you’re about to hear from Brenda Dayne, producer of "Cast-On, a podcast for knitters."

Ted Anderson carves beautiful walking sticks. Recently I took my little show on the road to Sparta, Michigan, where I visited his basement workshop and learned a thing or two about crafting with wood.

This week we’ll hear the story of a fine artist living a creative life on the outskirts of Marfa, Texas. Her name is Katherine Shaughnessy and she’s the 36-year-old fine artist making a name for herself in the craft world and as the creator of the hip Wool & Hoop Crewel Embroidery Kits. She’s also the author of a fabulous embroidery book called: “The New Crewel.”

From Canberra, Australia, Kathreen Ricketson has created a new crafty portal that highlights the latest and greatest in the artsy world -- whipup.net.

So have you heard about the Red Thread Project yet? On this episode you'll hear from Chicago fiber artist Lindsay Obermeyer, creator of the fantastic Red Thread Project, which is under way in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Alicia Paulson lives with the lasting effects of an accident, but has worked hard to craft herself a beautiful future. She shares how she became a successful crafty designer and businesswoman.

Leah Kramer, the woman who launched Craftster in 2003 and has watched its member base grow to more than 60,000 crafty people around the globe, shares her story.

Drew Emborsky is a shy man who loves to crochet. He loves it so much that he crochets from morning till night, six days a week working very hard to build his reputation as a pattern designer. On this episode of CraftSanity, Drew will share the story of how he landed in Houston, Texas and began to make a name for himself as The Crochet Dude.

If you’ve ever considered launching your own podcast or you want to know more about what goes on behind the scenes, you’re in luck. This week CraftyPod producer Diane Gilleland, a.k.a. Sister Diane, and I chat about what goes into creating a crafty podcast.

Greg Der Ananian is the 30-year-old proud founder of Bazaar Bizarre, a punk rock craft fair that features crafty venders with talent and attitude. Greg is also the author of “Bazaar Bizarre Not Your Granny’s Craft Book” featuring projects ideas from Greg and several of his crafty friends.

Textile designer and fiber artist Melanie Testa is going to inspire us with the story of how she crafted her way out of a bad situation. Today she’s an up and coming artist living in Norwalk, Conn. Her freezer paper resist project is featured in the spring issue of Quilting Arts magazine. After the show please visit CraftSanity.com where you’ll find Melanie’s project instructions for the Wonder Un...