My Fiber Exhibit at The Enrichment Center

I was so honored to be recommended by Sawtooth to participate in a fiber and fused glass art exhibit at The Enrichment Center in Winston-Salem! This is such a wonderful center that offers classes for adults with disabilities, giving them an opportunity to not only learn life and artistic skills, but to earn income with their art as well. The students have created beautiful fused glass and indigo-dyed textiles for the exhibit; my fiber art, quilts and wearable art will also be on display and much of it for sale. Grand opening is tonight, Jan. 29 from 5-7 pm, 1006 S. Marshall St., Winston-Salem, NC. The exhibit will run for 2 months, please visit if you get the chance! Here are a few photos of some of my work, and also the students' indigo work.

 I had so much fun creating this Nuno-felted Scarf, a class I often teach as well.

 Felted soaps with a "built-in loofah", very usable and last a long time, also a Sawtooth class.

 Lots of felted accessories in the jewelry case, representative of several of my classes.

 Some of my wearable art that is on display.

Beautiful indigo-dyed textiles created by Lindsay's students in the art department at the center.

25-year Anniversary Fascinator Contest Winner!

We have a winner for our fascinator contest!

 Wendy's beautiful green beaded fascinator, love her choice of colors and beading!

 Wendy used the yummiest textures and hues on this autumn fascinator, gorgeous!

Wendy's prize included Woolfelt, fibers, notions, patterns, kits and more!

Wendy Buettner of Virginia was the lucky recipient of 25 items from our company including patterns, kits, fibers, notions and more. Wendy submitted these 2 beautiful fascinator photos she made using our #175 "Fascinator Fun!" pattern, I love them! She really stretched her creativity with this dimensional autumn rendition, and I love the colors and embellishments she used on the green one - my fave color! Wendy took my fascinator class at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival a couple of years ago and made a gorgeous hat in that class, she really went over the top with these 2. Congratulations Wendy, hope you're enjoying your goodies in all this snow!

Wool Beads Class at Sawtooth

We had a grand time in our Wool Beads class at Sawtooth last Saturday! I was so honored to have a family spending part of their special weekend in our class, they made some beautiful jewelry too. Also enjoyed Cat as always, she is such a joy and blessing in my class and life. And a new student Jane, a spinner like Cat and Suzanne...who knew? I'm looking forward to sharing techniques on silk scarf dyeing, nuno-felting, and yes fiber dyeing in 2016!The group made some gorgeous pieces, here are a few photos of some of their work.

Cat made these beautiful earrings, I love the variety of colors and sizes she used, and some of them match her scarf she made in our last nuno-felting class!

 3 generations wearing their gorgeous pieces, they really did an incredible job and had fun too!

 I love the combination of fibers with the glass beads that Jane chose, so unique!

 Berkeley did an amazing job felting her beads and was such a fast learner, and a natural model too!

Wet-felting their wool fibers into wool beads, hard to believe they start out the size of golf balls!

Nancy's Fascinator entry

There are only 3 more weeks to get your entry into our 25-Year Anniversary Fascinator Contest! The lucky winner will receive 25 items from our company to celebrate your patronage, including patterns, kits, notions, fibers, all kinds of goodies! All you have to do to enter is send us a photo of a fascinator you have made from one of our fascinator patterns: #175 "Fascinator Fun!", #190 "Downstairs Fascinator", or # 195 "Holiday Fascinator". Each entry will be included in a drawing the first of January, 2016, to receive the grand prize; contest is over at midnight Dec. 31, 2015. Check out Nancy's adorable hat she made from our #175 "Fascinator Fun" pattern! Nancy is so talented, she starts with our woolfelt which she hand-dyes to add even more color and pattern. Then she cuts shapes and adds stitchery using her gorgeous hand-dyed threads, I just love her work. Good luck with the contest Nancy!

I was inspired!

I was so inspired by my felting students, I had to create a new nuno-felted scarf of my own. I had planned to sell it at Sawtooth, but I think I'll hang onto it for a while to inspire my future students, I really love how it turned out! I started with a sort of raspberry/orchid hand-dyed silk scarf, and added the orange flowers and my favorite shade of green leaves and vine. Yellow and orange bamboo fibers and wool neps were used to add texture and dimension to the oversized blossoms, and bamboo and curly fibers enhance the leaves. Theses sun-shiny colors make me happy just to look at them!

Nuno at The Fibre Studio at Yarns to Dye for

We had such a good time nuno-felting scarves at Debbie's studio in Charlotte this past weekend! Several of the girls knew each other, and that always makes for more fun. They were such a sharing group too, helping each other out with tips and suggestions. And their scarves were so gorgeous! Each one was so different, it's just amazing to see how the students' personalities are reflected in their work; some like their designs clean, symmetrical and simple, while for others "more is more". They all turned out just exquisite, here are some pictures of their beautiful work.

 This sweet lady's layout was wonderfully abstract in lots of "shades of gray"!

And here is a close-up, she had a real gift for laying out those curly fibers, love the textures!

 This was a wonderfully clean, symmetrical design, I love the addition of that pop of salmon!

 A beautiful mix of pastels contrasting with the rich textures of bamboo and curly fibers.

 This talented lady has taken several of my classes and has grown so much in her felting experience! I just loved this layout and color palette she chose, absolutely gorgeous.

Some wonderful sculptural effects along the edge after she felted the scarf, and the bamboo added just the right touch to her leaves which she cleverly extended over the edges.

Deck the Halls!

Every year, the Sawtooth School of Visual Art holds its annual Christmas sale, assembling beautiful art from lots of local artists in a variety of mediums: fiber art, scarves, knitted items, pottery, paintings, jewelry, pastels, woodworking, mixed-media, photography, handmade soap, art dolls, the list goes on and on. I brought a few of my fiber art pieces

to sell along with a few fascinators, I didn't take quite as much this year as I cracked a rib and that did slow me down a bit. But I was able to pull together a few things, here are a few pictures of some of my work.