Jessica Schleicher

We proudly present
Knot By Gran'ma
Crocheted Art Dolls
by
Jessica Schleicher



Jessica, aka jess, lives in the Hudson Valley in NY in the good old USA. She has
2 kids and is fortunate enough to be a work at home mom. Jess finds crocheting very relaxing and great therapy. Jess likes to say she crochets stuff our grandmas probably wouldn't have done during their time.




Her Knot By Gran’ma (KBG) journey started when she had her first child (kiddo #1), 8 years ago.  She started with hats, soon moving to hideous crocheted flower things, crocheted jewelry, until finally, she found doll making and loved it.  She found she was able to take her sketches and bring them to life.




Jess feels her work gets tagged as bizarre or weird a lot, but in a cute way.  She just makes what she likes, with all her designs starting as sketches and she goes from there.




For herself, she tends to buy things that she likes at the time.  She really doesn’t have a style on that one. As for collecting, you can bet she is into yarn. She has plenty on hand. She definitely collects it.



When asked how her family supports or inspires her, she says her baby seems to steal the dolls he likes and that's always a good thing.  She also bounces ideas off Hubs (her husband). She says he is so very supportive, but he might secretly suspect she is a little silly. Then there is kiddo (remember child #1) who's 8.  He's totally into stuff and when asked, “What do you think about this?",  he will always answer honestly. He will ask for it if he really likes it.”




Jess is working on a line of kid friendly dolls right now, along with some new crochet patterns. She is in the midst of a great art doll, Tentacle Ballet Monster. Sometimes, she thinks she has the attention span of a 4 year old. To help, she likes to work on lots of stuff at once. She also has been known to draw and paint when she isn’t busy doing other things.




Jess sells on Etsy and Ravelry for now. She also sells her patterns there.  She has a website, but she hasn’t figured out how to sell from it, yet.  She is also getting back into doing craft shows more this year.




In the future Jess told me she would love to host more crochet parties, which is basically a class in your home for your family and friends. She doesn’t think it has caught on as well as she had hoped, yet.  :)  In the meantime, she teaches private music lessons on the weekends. Along with her other talents, Jess teaches flute, clarinet and alto sax, beginner to intermediate skill levels. She sees herself as a classical sax player.  The piano and she have a love/hate relationship.  She loves her old, antique, upright in her living room.




One of my favorite questions to artists is always what information would you pass on to other artists just getting started in an on line business. Jess told me, “it's been said before, but do what you love, have patience and work your butt off“. That pretty well sums it up.
Until next time, …




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