What a wonderful event! Great attendance, creative and well crafted work, and pleased students, I'm so happy! It is so great to see such local support for the arts. Had some technical difficulties with my phone last night, but I still got a couple shots of student work, and one from my display in …
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Silk Scarf Dyeing Workshops – May 4 & 5
Silk Scarf Dyeing Workshops - May 4 & 5 Book before April 30th - $20/scarf • After April 30 - $25/scarf. Make and give beautiful, hand dyed silk scarves this Mother's Day- Choose from a habotai or chiffon scarf, and hand dye it kettle style with Trish! You may dye your scarf with up to two …
Dyed Mokume Shibori
The process of mokume shibori is incredibly labor & time intensive, but boy does it work beautifully! The goal is to create the effect of a tree's bark, both in dye resist and in thermal forming of the handmade wool felt. First up is the stitching of the fabric... Next up, the tightening …
Experiments in Wet Felting
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— …
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. …