For me, there is not much more daunting a task for a teacher than lecturing to teachers. I enjoy taking on tasks that scare me, and this is one of them - the Southern Vermont Educators Symposium. Each year, this event tasks me with lecturing educators on a topic I hold very dear to my heart— …
fiber art
Mushroom Needle Felt
In my never-ending pursuit of re-making nature out of fiber, here are a pair of needle felted mushrooms. The inner base is made of recycled sweater parts, and then wool is needle felted all around. Each mushroom was needle felted first, then attached to the base. …
Mokume Shibori Stitching complete!
Finally done with all the fine running stitches, 36 rows total. though it may not look it, this piece of green handmade wool felt used to be about ten inches wide, now pulled taut to around four inches or so. The plan is to overdye this with a blending of silver blue, and a dash of black to give the …