When Linda Johansen was seven years old, her mother sat her down at a treadle sewing machine and taught her how to sew. By the time she was in junior high school, she was making all of her own clothes. She loves to stretch her creativity with every innovative fabric technique she can find, from dyeing, painting, and stamping to making bowls and boxes. And, as of this writing, she has created over 200 bowls!

Linda teaches workshops on beginning, traditional, and contemporary quiltmaking; color and design; and dyeing and stamping. Of course, her very popular classes on making fabric bowls and fabric boxes are always filled. Under the company name Johansen Dyeworks, Linda hand-dyes fabric, specializing in color gradations and variegated, one-of-a-kind pieces. This fabric, along with commissioned art quilts and fabric bowls and boxes, is sold through several shops around the Northwest.

Always up for trying new things, Linda’s latest craft pursuit is eco-dyeing with leaves, flowers and other plant parts on silk.  Her life now revolves around her studio, a retired husband, three border collies, and a yard and garden that seem to get bigger each year.Although her two sons have grown up and left the nest, Linda still has the company of two border collie mix dogs. She and her husband live in Corvallis, Oregon.