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Instructor Biographies
Ida Atkinson has been a basket case for over twenty years! Starting with the 100+ Carolina Stars as wedding favors at her own wedding, Ida progressed through classes offered at adult ed programs until she became the adult ed basket instructor in several area programs. A former elementary teacher, she has a passion for making learning fun. Come join the fun and soon you will also be mumbling, “ Under, over, under, over…..” in your sleep. idaandgary@fairpoint.net
Christina Boucher is the maker behind Fantastic Farm Yarn. She specializes in handspun, hand dyed yarns made with locally grown fiber sourced from some of New England's finest small farms. Christina focuses on showcasing the beauty of natural fibers with an artistic approach to color and texture. Her goal is to make yarns, batts and roving that inspire creativity in the crafter and fiber artist.
Janet Conner is an avid rug hooker who has been pulling loops since 1979. Graduating from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, she spent 30 years teaching Elementary Art in southern Maine, while raising a busy family. After retirement in 2005, Janet was able to work at rug hooking and fiber arts full time, launching her web based business, which offers a line of her own patterns as well as rug hooking supplies and equipment, books, and natural dye recipe cards. She teaches fiber arts in her home state of Maine and throughout the East Coast plus Bermuda and Canada, with a specific focus on art history and the inspiration found in both fine art and folk art. In addition to rug hooking, she also teaches punch needle, proddy, and penny rug techniques. Twenty-five years of studying and repairing antique rugs has influenced Janet’s love of old fashioned methods and timeless motifs. She has contributed chapters on cleaning and repair of antique rugs to Rug Hooking Magazine’s book Finishing Hooked Rugs. She co-authored Rug Hooking Traditions with James & Mercedes Hutchinson, which debuts with the Hutchinson Exhibit, in August of 2016. Janet’s rugs have appeared in Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs XXII, Rug Hooking Magazine, Hooked Rugs Today 2004 & 2006, and galleries throughout New England. Her greatest joy is to foster the success of her students; many of whom have made rugs in her classes that have been featured in Rug Hooking Magazine. www.jconnerhookedrugs.com
Linda Perry has been a lifelong yarn enthusiast, specializing in knitting and dyeing. After a deep dive into Dorset buttons and a persistent addiction, resulting in making over a thousand of these, her buttons have been successfully marketed worldwide. Having degrees in Textiles and Fashion Design, Linda has taught fiber and fashion courses at the college level for many decades. Betsey Leslie is a fiber artist , teacher and native Mainer who has been perfecting her craft over the last 37 yrs. She loves teaching the basic skills that allow someone to explore their own creativity! Betsey taught fiber arts at Fiddlehead Center of Arts and Sciences . Currently she is teaching workshops year round, virtually and in person, at the Shaker Village in New Gloucester Maine. She works daily at her studio and is open by appointment and offers private lessons. She sells fiber art supplies, spinning wheels, carders, wooden knitting needles ,dyes and wools. Elizabeth Miller is a fiber artist,
writer, and instructor in the Western Lakes & Mountains region of Maine. Her
primary sources of inspiration are the natural environment and matters of
being human, including love, motherhood, trauma, and grief. Her western
Maine village homestead keeps her occupied with gardening, beekeeping,
chicken keeping, and many things fiber. Lucie Sinkler is a former owner of CloseKnit Yarn store in Evanston, IL, where she taught classes and helped customers knit and crochet many projects. She moved to Sandwich, NH in 2021. Since then she has added spinning and weaving using local fibers to her range of crafts.
Karen Smith is the owner of Shearbrooke Farm in Standish, ME where she raises sheep, angora rabbits, a llama and pygora goats, chickens and a few guinea hens. She is a former elementary school teacher and librarian who has been teaching weaving for twenty-five years. She hosted the Saco Valley Fiber Artists Summer Workshops at her farm for twenty years. She has enjoys traveling and has ties with weavers in Guatemala. shearbrooke@roadrunner.com
Linda Whiting grew up in a family of “makers” and has worked in a variety of mediums, but her love of color brought her back to fiber. Her special interests are dyeing and tapestry weaving, but include many others. She enjoys gathering inspiration from her photography and loves learning new techniques and passing them along to others through workshops, fairs and fiber events. She is the director of the Pleasant Mountain Fiber Arts Workshops held each year in June and participates in fiber events throughout New England. www.pinestarstudio.com pinestarlinda@fairpoint.net
Conni Whittaker is an avid learner and enthusiast of all things creative and crafty. Her obsession of the decade is a zero waste policy to use every bit of fiber that enters her fiber studio. While Conni has a considerable stash of new fabrics, she feels most creatively free when using upcycled fabrics and fibers. Never one to let fear of failure stand in her way, she is currently learning to spin. This fourth class proved to be the charm. She has attended PMFAW for over 10 years as a student and instructor (pottery buttons) and has continued to build on skills and experiences obtained: eco printing, shibori, needle and wet felting, bookmaking, knitting to name a few. Conni is a firm believer in having multiple projects in process at all times to stave off the panic of idle hands. She and her husband, Bob, and 2 cats currently live in Belfast, Maine.
Marcy Young is a Rug Maker. Her interests have included Traditional Rug Hooking, Penny Rugs, Twined, Proddy, Braided, Locker Hooked and her favorite, Oxford Punch Needle Rugs. She has upcycled, recycled and used many textiles for her rugs, but mostly enjoys using traditional wool and natural fibers. Marcy started her Rug Making journey when she found a hook while cleaning her in-laws home. She soon learned her own grandmother and great grandmother were rugmakers and she inherited those rugs, frames, hooks and inspirations from her mother. Her greatest interest is Oxford Punch Needle and she is a Certified Oxford Punch Needle Rug Hooking Teacher 2018. She teaches Oxford punch needle, Locker hooking, Quilly rugs and Traditional Proddy rugs. Marcy is a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, has worked as Oncology RN for almost 35 years, is an Army Veteran, and now enjoys her rug making. She loves the peace and satisfaction of completing a useful rug project. She hopes to inspire others with lovely yarns and fibers and creative rug making.
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