The good news…. I’m no longer a beginner tapestry weaver and my instructor challenges me to improve my skills. The bad news…. I’m no longer a beginner tapestry weaver and my instructor challenges me to improve my skills. Tuesday I brought my newly finished sample to class. Alastair’s comments were, “Nice straight selvages and […]
On August 1st, I boarded a plane and flew east across the Atlantic for the Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers biennial summer school being held at University of Wales Trinity St. Davids College in Carmarthen, Wales. Over 200 fiber loving folks gathered for a week to participate in the 16 course being […]
The past 30 days have been filled with projects coming to completion (deadlines are my friend!) with 2 major events this month: demonstrating weaving all day at the Saline Celtic Festival and co-chairing AAFG’s participation in the Ann Arbor Art Fairs. Deadline: Have the ‘Surround Sound Vest’ completed for display at the Saline Celtic Festival Earlier […]
Gene Schutz (circa 1973) I have no memories of ever thinking Dad looked deformed. He was just ‘dad’. To me what was strange were the pictures of him when he was young – like the basketball picture from his high school yearbook. There he was – standing tall, poised, ready to shoot, both arms […]
‘STASH’…. Webster defines it as “a secret store of something”. Fiber artists are famous (or infamous!) when it comes to our stash because you never know when you just might need that specific yarn, color or fabric. Granted… sometimes our houses do look like an episode of ‘Hoarders’ as the yarn, roving, fabric…. whatever our […]
It’s been a month since I last posted and life has been busy!!! April 13th – Ann Arbor Fiberarts Guild Fiber Feast – Fashion Show, Luncheon & Sale. 30+ guild members had items for sale and/or on the runway. I had 3 pieces on the runway, a sales table, and modeled some wonderful garments! […]
My grandmother taught me to embroider years ago when I was 5 or 6 yrs old. We traced coloring book images onto pillow cases and I worked from that. After all these years – I still have one of the first one’s I ever did. As you can see it was well-loved and used often! […]
Felting at the Michigan Fiber Festival Symposium in Kalamazoo, MI at the end of March. I did 2 workshops with Suzanne Higgs. Day 2 – Fabulous, Funky, Fun Felt Bag For this workshop we made felt bags using recycled sari silk as surface embellishment. Light weight, flexible plastic 1 1/2 times larger than the desired […]
March ended with 2 days of felting at the Michigan Fiber Festival Symposium in Kalamazoo, MI. I did 2 workshops with Suzanne Higgs. Day 1 – Dyeing Habotia Silk & Nuno Felting 1) We started by dyeing 5mm habotia silk with Jacquard Acid Dyes. Mine began with three dye passes using yellow, hot pink […]
After looking at the wall pieces in the AAFG exhibit at the Village Theater, my felt piece ‘Day Dreaming’ needs some ‘drama’ before I submit it again to anything. This morning I got an idea = actually frame it using an old window frame!! Did a test print on paper to see how it might […]