Location: New York, NY
Website: Heather Ross Designs
Blog: Heather Ross Journal

Heather Ross is an illustrator, textile designer, and creative crafter working in New York. She has been working on a pile of children’s books recently, and a line of new girl’s surfboards will soon be graced with her drawings. Heather also runs sewing workshops related to her book, Weekend Sewing, during which you can make clothes and quilts out of one of her fabrics, or write a note to a friend on her stationery. Her patterns and drawings evoke the sea, childhood, and fairy tales for a variety of clients.

When I first saw one of Heather’s fabric designs, the only thing I could think about was being wrapped up in my favorite children’s stories. I grew up with a quilter for a mother, so the comfort of fabrics and patterns is instinctive for me. I also grew up on Lake Michigan, so her depictions of mermaids and boats make me long for the water from my land-locked home in Idaho. Wherever her work takes me, anyway, I’m happy to follow.