Kristine Vejar

Kristine Vejar promotes the use of natural dyes, natural fibers and ancient traditions any chance she gets. She has worked at the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. developing a lexicon for the museum. She received a Fulbright Grant to document indigenous textiles in Gujarat, India. Greatly inspired by her work abroad, she created her company, A Verb for Keeping Warm, a retail fiber arts store,classroom, and production studio for her artisanal naturally dyed yarn and fiber.

Adrienne Rodriguez

Adrienne is an avid nature lover and mushroom hunter. She was born in Indio, California and grew up with the desert around her. She is a Mills College graduate with a degree in Art History. She has been gardening and working with plants since she was able to walk. Her father, a Horticulturist for over 50 years, has inspired her to work with the plants. With additional post graduate courses in horticulture and natural dyeing she has worked to further the study of dye gardening and dyeing with plants and mushrooms in the SF Bay Area. You can find more about her adventures at www.dyegarden.com

April Gavin

April has worked with yarn and fabric all of her life. Whether she's sewing or knitting or weaving, making things by hand is her prime pleasure in life. Her teaching philosophy is to keep things as simple as possible and give students a chance to explore their own creativity.

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Katrina Lamken

Katrina has been quilting (and knitting) for over 20 years and is a member of the San Francisco Quilter’s Guild. She has done hand and machine piecing, applique, and hand and machine quilting, making traditional as well as art quilts. She has also made jackets, vests, bags, etc.

Katrina taught quilting classes for over 8 years at Black Cat Quilts in San Francisco. You may have seen her quilts at PIQF, the Marin Quilt Show, SFQG show, or even Quilt Hawaii.

Marisa Zucek

Marisa learned quilting from her mother at a young age and doesn’t intend to stop anytime soon. She is a quilt historian, appraiser, designer, and instructor. Her quilts have been accepted and exhibited in the Pacific International Quilt Festival several times for which she has been recognized with Honorable Mention.

Her passion is teaching traditional techniques of applique, piecing, and quilting to modern students who enjoy progressive quilt designs.  Marisa likes to talk about her love of quilt design, both American and Japanese, in her blog: Quilt Otaku - www.quiltotaku.blogspot.com

Michael Wade is a polite southern boy whose grandmother showed him how to crochet pot-holders when he was knee-high to a toad stool. That was the beginning of a life-long love of all things fiber. As an adult he learned to knit, spin, and weave. He teaches and podcasts about all of those pursuits on Fiber Beat (available online and on iTunes). He also coordinates the Men's Fall Knitting Retreat on the west coast. You can find him 24/7 on Ravelry as WonderMike.