Lisa B. Evans

Lisa is a landscape architect, devoted knitter, author, and mother of three. She has designed for the needlecraft industry for more than 18 years, and started her own business, LB Evans Handknits in 2001 with an innovative line of knitted handbags, backpacks, and totes. Lisa specializes in color knitting and co-authored her first book, Hip Graphic Knits. (Rockport, 2006). Her designs have been featured in Interweave Knits Magazine. She also leads knitting workshops, retreats, assists the handwork instructors at the Merriconeag Waldorf School in Freeport, Maine and started The Children’s Knitting Circle in 2008. Lisa is the Owner and President of Knitting and Yoga Adventures, Inc. which was founded in 2006.

Susan Mills

Susan is an accomplished knitwear designer who brings with her a great creative talent. With a background in mathematics, she has developed an amazing technical knowledge of knitting and garment design which enables her to create beautiful knitted garments for the entire family, many of which include intricate stitch patterns. Susan’s career has come full circle as she has returned to where it all began for her at Classic Elite Yarns. She is now Creative Director, where she develops and markets new yarns along with the seasonal pattern collections. Over the course of her career Susan has designed for many publications such as Vogue International, Knitters Magazine, Interweave Knits, as well as Classic Elite Yarns. She was Creative Director of Nashua Handknits and Director of Design for JCA, Inc. which included Reynolds, Artful Yarns, and Adrienne Vittadini Yarns. She co-edited The Best of Lopi (2002, XRX Books), and is included in the well-known book, Knitting The New Classics (1998, Sterling). Susan lives in Townsend, Mass. with her daughter, who is also a knitter.

Melora Gregory, R.Y.T.

Melora has been passionately studying and teaching yoga at Portland Yoga Studio since 1993, where she is currently Workshop Coordinator and Teacher. A Registered Yoga Teacher, her main influences are BKS Iyengar Yoga Master Teacher Patricia Walden, Gabriel Halpern, and Elaine and Francis McGillicuddy. Melora continues to learn anatomy, therapeutics, yoga theory, and flow sequences, which she joyfully incorporates into her classes. Certified in 2009 in Yamuna Body Rolling. Melora finds this revolutionary therapeutic self body work very energizing. Melora has been the yoga instructor for weeklong retreats to Italy, to Monhegan Island, Costa Rica, and soon to New Zealand! YogaTravelWithMelora.com.

Mary Alice Goering, L.M.T.

Mary Alice is a licensed and nationally certified massage therapist. She is a member of the Maine Sports Massage Team, the Boston Marathon Massage Team since 1993, as well as the Olympic Sports Massage Teams for both 2002 in Salt Lake City, UT and 2004 in Athens, Greece. Mary Alice maintains a private practice in Portland, ME specializing in CORE myofascial/sports massage therapy, orthopedic and Swedish massage

Patty Bright

Patty lives in Freeport, Maine with her husband, two children, one international student (from So. Korea), two dogs and one guinea pig. Before her newest career as a mom, she and her husband owned a small lamp manufacturing business called Blueberry Farm. She has also managed conferences and trade shows and has been a marketing manager. Patty loves to play tennis, knit, snowshoe, travel, be outside and eat chocolate (not necessarily in that order). This will be her fourth year with us leading island walks and indispensably assisting Lisa with pretty much everything

Spike Gillespie

 Spike is the critically acclaimed author of six books both   autobiographical and about the needle arts as well as countless  magazine articles. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Real Simple, GQ, Esquire, Elle, Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, Interweave KNITS, The Christian Science Monitor, and many many other publications. In 2006, Austin Chronicle readers voted her Best Author in Austin. She has an enormous heart, love of nature and concern for others so it is not surprising that she is the President of the Office of Good Deeds, an informal group of Austinites who enjoy performing good deeds for those in need. She lives in Austin with her partner, Ori, four hyper dogs, and one very loud cat.