I think you can consider yourself successful when your students do better work than you do!! Above are a few of the first round of dyeing. Everyone had such a good time. I brought extra scarves and so everyone did a second and some whent for thirds. Here is the one I did to show [...]

This is a piece of habotai silk on which I did some test printing with stamps and an aspen leaf thermofax screen. You can click on it to see it larger. I then dyed it with some pumpkin and yellow. I decided to use the aspen leaf for one of the scarves. I really wanted [...]

At least that is my name for it. I should have made a new fish screen, but c’est la vie. Part of this challenge was to do some subtle dimension. I put an extra layer of batting under 3 of the fish and stitched it with water soluble thread. Then I added the batting and [...]

I had a hectic few days. I hosted the Oregon Fiberarts Critique Group on Saturday so there was the frenetic getting ready and providing coffee and treats when every one arrived on Saturday morning. Our guest critic, Alice, was our cathedral arts director until we ran out of funding for the position. She did a [...]

I needed to get my studio tidied up because I have 10 artists coming on Saturday for the Oregon Fiber Artist’s critique. We meet twice a year. I know somebody is going to want to see where I work. I went down there this morning and instead of cleaning, I did another expressive drawing and [...]