High Tide Fibers: For knitting, crochet, spinning & weaving.
Get to know the team:
Theresa Kaskey, Owner
Hi, I’m Theresa! I live in Rehoboth Beach and boy do I love to knit (and crochet, and weave, and spin). My grandmother taught me to crochet when I was just a kid, and though I didn’t keep up with it back then, I later rediscovered just how satisfying it is to make something with your hands and build your own hand-made wardrobe.
These crafts can be anything you want them to be – relaxing, challenging, purposeful, a creative outlet, a fun hobby, or a meditative practice. And you truly can make anything – clothing, homegoods, pet clothes, wall art, gifts.
If you see me out and about, I often have a project with me. And just about every time I knit in public someone says to me, “I’ve always wanted to learn to do that!” Having a space where people can learn and connect is the first and foremost goal of our shop.
I love to share these crafts, connect with other makers, inspire newbies, and offer products that I know you will just love.
Stephanie, Shop Associate & Class Instructor
Stephanie is an associate in the shop and teaches classes, too! She is a fiber artist, loves helping customers, has a keen eye for design, and loves all things fiber — she even set up and ran a knitting factory in Brooklyn. In her spare time she weaves, makes bags and quilts, spends time with her dog Tuna and loves to be out on her motorcycle.
Katey, Shop Associate
Once a nurse, always a nurse—just using yarn needles for now while she's home with her young children. Katey is a local maker who loves to crochet and is slowly but surely learning to knit. She loves to share the tips and tricks she has learned along the way and help anyone who comes into the shop find exactly what they are looking for.
Tara, Shop Associate
Tara is an engineer by day, crafter at night. Coming from a long line of female fiber artists on her mother’s side, Tara has always felt it was in her blood to be one as well. She's been knitting since the age of nine, sewing at an even younger age, and always had a passion for traditional style fiber arts and keeping those traditions alive. After learning to knit, Tara taught herself how to crochet, then found a very strong passion for spinning. She loves teaching and sharing her love for the fiber arts, especially to locals. Tara hopes to one day have a sheep farm on the Eastern Shore and build her own spinning wheel.
Fran, Class Instructor
On top of being a passionate knitter, Fran is a bestselling fiction author. Before moving to Rehoboth she worked on global research projects for treatments for cancer, heart disease and multiple sclerosis. Thanks to the travel that job required she’s been lucky enough to study with some of the knitting greats like Kaffe Fassett, Alice Starmore, Di Gilpin and many others, and loves to teach other knitters insider info about knit, crochet and design. These days she has become a master at Ripping It Out, thanks to always looking for projects that include new challenges. Fran is so grateful to have a shop like High Tide Fibers in town and looks forward to meeting lots of other crafters there.
Marina, Class Instructor
Marina is a local fiber artist and fiber farmer. She likes to knit and crochet, but specializes in spinning and weaving. Her passion for spinning grew from a fascination with the journey from fleece to finished yarn, leading her to study traditional fiber processing techniques, breed-specific wools, and historical textile methods. She enjoys working with a variety of natural fibers, including alpaca, sheep wool, silk, and plant fibers, and finds joy in every step of the process—from skirting and carding to spinning and creating beautiful handspun yarn.
Whether teaching someone to spin their very first yarn on a drop spindle or helping students gain confidence on a spinning wheel, Marina’s goal is to make fiber arts approachable, enjoyable, and inspiring.
Michelle, Class Instructor
Michelle’s specialty is crochet. She took a beginner crochet class in a small, local yarn shop in New Jersey, and that started the obsession! Since then she has crocheted a wide range of projects, including blankets, baby sweaters, wraps, scarves, cowls, and ponchos. Michelle has mastered many advanced techniques, like mosaic, brioche, tapestry, and intarsia crochet. She is also a pattern tester for a UK crochet designer, Helen Shrimpton, for whom she edits patterns and tests out her gorgeous, textured designs. Find Michelle’s work on Ravelry: craftymaffy.
She loves teaching others to crochet and spreading the joy of this craft! Michelle teaches several of our crochet classes: check them out!
Randi, Class Instructor
Randi is a lifelong learner and educator having worked as a music therapist, social worker, and Preschool Director. Needle crafts were a part of her life from an early age and she got back to knitting about 12 years ago. Her local knitting store in New Jersey became a part of her life from taking numerous classes to sitting weekly with other crafters at their open table. Upon retirement in 2021, Randi worked and taught classes in three different New Jersey knitting stores and continued to craft with others and teach at OLLI upon moving to DE in 2023. Randi knits every day and loves sharing her passion with others, whether helping beginners, crafting baby blankets, hats and sweaters for gifts, knitting for charity or finding creative ways to use her stash.
Diane, Stitch Doctor
Diane is our resident stitch doctor and holds sessions where knitters can drop in for help with their projects. She has been knitting for 60 years, and dabbled in all the crafts at times. She became a serious knitter before her first child was born, 36 years ago, going to yarn stores for real wool. Diane continued learning from the Knit List, an early internet list. She enjoys doing test knits and samples (check out her samples in the shop!), and usually has about 4 WIP’s going, and always a pair of socks. You can find her on Ravelry as D4obrien.