Here is a close up of his face. I still haven't named him. What is a good name for such a loveable dragon? If you can tell, I tried to cut out the messy art room behind him!

This was one of my Christmas presents. Actually, it was a lot of wool roving and 24 pages of instructions on how to make him. He is my second needlefelted doll (my bear was the first). Isn't he cute???? I just love him and it was way easy. It was a kit from Grafton Fibers.

Here are details of the scarf.

Here is the almost full scarf! I love it, which I have decided is the most important person to please when making art! The base is wetfelted in seperate organic pieces which I then pieced together with my embellisher. I then took a little roving, pencil roviing, and some non-twisted wool thread which I first needlefelted in place and then embellished down.

Here are two more pieces that I felted. The little bear is a silly little thing, but was the first tree dimensional piece that I did. The other piece is a wine sleeve that I made from a wetfelted mat.

Here is a piece that I wet felted.

Another needlefelted piece. I was trying to illutrate that I actually can do a piece that is very controlled!

I haven't been posting in over a month. I have been working but on just "stuff". Here is a flower that I needlefelted. I have been doing a lot of wet felting and now quite a bit of needlefelting. I will be teaching needlefelting next month at Fiber on a Whim (www.fiberonawhim.com) . This is soo easy but way cool.

I took a two day workshop on Shibori andIndigo dying with Linda Campbell at Fiber on a Whim this weekend. Linda was a fantastic teacher. She went over making a vat (we made two), history of both (including a slide show). It was wonderful. I will try to put up a few more examples later.

Another one of my pieces! You can just wash the soy wax out, much easier than real wax!

I took a two day soy wax batik class at Fiber on a Whim. Very easy and a lot of fun.

Block of Seagulls was my submission to the First Fast Friday Challenge. The idea behind the challenge is that on the last Friday of the month a theme and a design element is posted. You then have a week to design and complete a small format piece of fiber art.
The name was my friend Rebecca's idea. Yes, I love the '80's.

My New Adventure

No picture for this, but I wanted to document that I have signed up for the City & Guild, Level 3 Patchwork and Quiting Certification Course with Linda Kremshall's DesignMatters http://www.lindakemshall.com. I can't wait. I hear that this is a very challenging program but isn't that what it is all about - challenging yourself as an artist. It seems that every time I open a book that "Wows" me, the author/artist has been trained or is a teacher in one of these courses.

This is my Bead Embroidery doll! It is the first doll I ever made. I took a class by the very wonderful Anne Hesse, a wonderful ladie and teacher. I actually did this doll over a year ago, but I did want to "document" it.

Have you had your fiber today?

Here is a new piece I've been working on in my Patty Madeiris Culea Tome Class at Fiber on a Whim in Atlanta. It was great fun playing with a wide variety of fibers.

Here is a new piece that I am working on. I haven't finished yet, so if you have any recommendations to make it compositionally stronger, please send me a comment.

This one is a lot better in person.

and another

This one uses the silk as a base, but has wool roving to add a bit of contrast (matt) and angelina

Fun Fusion

This silk fusion is almost completely transparent in areas.

More Silk Fusion

I've been playing with more silk fusion -trying to make it thinner, more transparent. This one has just a little wool and angelina fiber too.