Textile Center Makers Market 2025

Ivy Morrison (she/her) is a dye artist based in Minneapolis, MN, after living in Los Angeles for ten years. With twenty-five years of experience in various creative fields—such as professional dance, choreography, and birth work—her passion for color theory and fashion eventually converged, leading her to the world of dyeing and further evolving her artistry.

Liz Sprangel (she/her) is a fiber artist, based in Lino Lakes, MN, with a passion for vibrant colors and fun motifs. She specializes in crafting captivating tapestries and wearables that draw inspiration from her life experiences, the beauty of nature, and pop art.

SM (they/them) is an interdisciplinary textile artist based in Minneapolis. They use quilting techniques to explore themes related to queerness, gender, memory, and intimacy. Part of their process is using found materials and scraps to up-cycle vintage clothing.

Cami Andersen (she/her) is a librarian by profession and a crafter at heart based in North St. Paul, MN. Her crafts are made with a sense of humor, and include cross-stitching, Bargello embroidery, and bookmarks made of recycled books. She especially loves playing with color, and often uses themes related to books, pets, and hygge (being cozy).

Jenna Bergman (she/her) is a textile artist based in Minneapolis MN, currently creating as Goldenrod Handcraft. Jenna creates quilted textile art and small batch reworked clothing using vintage, secondhand, botanical dyed and block printed textiles. Her work is lighthearted, colorful and often depicts imagery of her favorite foods or is inspired by nature.

Eleanor Giese (she/her) is an artist based in Minneapolis with curiosities for many mediums, but printmaking has always had her heart. Her linocut creations explore and encourage the formation of community in an increasingly individualistic society. Come shop for bandanas, t-shirts, patching and prints at the Makers Market!

Kirsten Aune (she/her) is a textile artist based in Duluth, Minnesota. She screen-prints yardage and stencils fabric which become tapestries, apparel and an array of domestic delights. She is known for her bold choice of colors and Scandinavian vibe.

Tshab Her (she/her) is an interdisciplinary visual artist who focuses on embroidery and textile. She creates handmade fabric and beaded statement earrings inspired by traditional Hmong clothing under It’s Pronounced Cha—bringing together her identity, personal style, and art practice.

Alicia De La Cruz (she/her) is a beadwork artist enrolled in the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and a descendant of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. She creates beaded jewelry and hats with a modern twist.

Natasha Malmberg (she/her) creates one-of-a-kind textile designs using a traditional Japanese marbling technique called Suminagashi. She revitalizes this ancestral craft by turning these unique, hand marbled fabrics into handmade apparel and accessories for all.

Hayley Fisher (she/her) fixed up a vintage Singer Chainstitch Machine that she recently inherited. This machine was used to create letter jacks and bowling shirts in the 1950s. Bring and item that is non-stretch denim, linen or canvas that would like a custom word or name on and leave with a one-of-a-kind piece.

Zoe (she/her) and Sadie Allen (she/her), White Earth Ojibwe and Sicangu Lakota, draw from pop-culture to make unique beadwork pieces using a variety of techniques. Influenced by the artistry of their late Grandmother Helen Allen, the sisters carry on their family tradition of Anishinaabe and Lakota style beadwork by working with traditional Indigenous materials including birch bark and seed beads. Learn more about them and their work by visiting their instagram page @lightningstonearts!

Rooted among the rich soil of the Midwest, Rebi (she/her) creates work that hugs the line between craft and art, bringing beauty to everyday functional items through her business Rooted Apricity. Broom-making has become the perfect balance of her desire to make, her love for plants, and her passion to live as close to the earth as possible.

Sarah Rosenthal (she/her) is a craft artist, world traveler, costume designer, reference librarian and queer historian. She practices Slavic folk embroidery using archival references, traditional techniques, and repurposed materials — making patterns of the past accessible to the modern stitcher. Explore her collection of designs at the Makers Market!

Amanda Schmitz (she/her) is an emerging crochet artist based in Minneapolis, MN. She is finding joy in learning new crochet techniques with the aim of bringing color, movement, and nature-inspired decor into your home. Check out her booth at the Makers Market for tapestries, wind spinners, hanging plant holders, and more!

Liz Kluthe (she/her) is an indie dyer based out of Saint Paul. She aims to create hand dyed yarns and fiber with a blended variegated feel and low saturation tonals. She hopes that her dye style creates yarn that creates wearable objects for everyone.

Zoe Lautz (she/her) is a Twin Cities-based fiber artist who specializes in quilting and embroidery. She uses color and texture to create dimension in her wall hangings and embroidery hoops, and creates jewelry, stickers, and other home decor with her original designs.

Off The Hook Fiber Arts is a mother daughter team based in St. Paul, MN, Our crocheted goods are made in chunky designs with modern and bold colors. We always use quality yarn and have a large selection of sustainable goods, made from recycled plastics.

Beeper Bébé Studio wants kiddos to experience the magic of rainbows, make-believe and sweet dreams. They want to be kind to the earth and use what already exists. They want big people to know that childhood doesn’t have to end just because they’ve grown up. Their art toys and plushies are made from secondhand clothing and eco-friendly fibers, then handcrafted with whimsy, vibrant colors and happy details in order to make all of these dreams come true. Come play.

Greta Kreider Carlson (she/her) is currently living in South Minneapolis after many years spent in the mountain west, and has become infatuated with the meditative practice of spinning yarn. Her hand spun yarn is often inspired by colors of the desert, reflecting the interplay of sky, sand, rock, and desert flora. She loves to experiment with color combinations and different methods of plying and uses her hand spun remnants to make delightfully fluffy pompoms!

Alexandra (Ali) King (she/her), is an artist and seamstress local to Minneapolis, MN. She creates unique spins on upcycled clothing with a focus on sustainability. “Clothing doesn’t need to be thrown away just because they have a rip or a stain, make them into something new!” Bright bold and unique each patchwork design she creates is one of a kind and invokes thought and feeling.

Maddie (she/her), based in St. Paul, MN, creates crochet clothing and accessories. She loves incorporating bright colors and creating new designs that are cute and stylish. Shop her one of a kind handmade products!

Jodi Trotta (she/her) is a St Paul-based artist, who prefers using color over medium as the driving force for her work. She tries to use remnant and thrifted yarn as often as possible for her fiber sculptures, ensuring each piece is unique.

Sandy Kalinowski (she/her), Minneapolis, MN creates needle felted landscapes from life travels and imagined travels. She also creates portraits of animals and other natural elements, detailed and somewhat abstract. Sandy has a background in painting and drawing of similar subjects, along with vignettes in an impressionistic realism style. She only recently discovered needle felting and fibers on her journey to return to art and craft-making from the corporate world.

Christina Angell (she/her) creates a variety of fanciful fiber crafts from her home studio in Northeast Minneapolis. She is especially inspired by flowers, animals, and retro/vintage imagery. Using cozy and vibrant colors and textures, she makes crocheted, knitted, quilted, rug braided, and needle felted items. Shop her whimsical collection of handmade goods at the Makers Market!

Ani Tobin (she/they), based in Minneapolis, creates playful knit and sewn pieces that are fun and functional. Ani likes to bounce around mediums while focusing on up-cycling materials to give them a new life. Shop Ani’s pieces at the Makers Market!