Sea Monster

Sea Monster
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Made from recycled sweaters, tights and felt. I started construction on this at ArtFiberFest 2007 in Keeley Barham's WOOLY BEASTS workshop. I think he'll be tagging along to ARTFEST 2009!

Day of the Dead Themed Show

Now hanging in the Harbor Building for the month of November is an ATC Day of the Dead themed show. These are just a few of the many works presented by local artists.

Tidal Windows

Tidal Windows
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I started this piece ages ago and finally got around to finishing it. I've been trying to complete all of my unfinished art projects before I start anything new in an effort to clear out my creative space and start fresh with some new ideas. This piece and others will be hanging at The Fly-By next month.

Exquisite Corpse Textiles

I've been taking part in an interesting project for the past few months- an Exquisite Corpse Textile exchange. I haven't mentioned it before because I'm not allowed to post any pic's of my work until the entire project has been completed. Each participant creates a design on fabric that is segmented into 6"x6" squares. One square is chosen and the design within the square embellished and worked in colors chosen by the creator of the piece. The finished square is then covered with fabric, front and back, and sent to the next person in the group to work on. Each person remains blind to what the person before them has done. The only guide is the drawing on the fabric and the color choices given at the start. When each square has been completed, the piece is returned to the person who started it and all the squares are then uncovered to reveal the finished piece.  So when I finally get my "corpse" back, 5 other artists will have worked on it and I myself will have worked on a total of 6 different designs. I'm currently on my fourth square/piece. It's been fun to see each person's designs and the creative challenges each piece brings. Since I'm participating in the 2nd round of Exquisite Corpse, there are some round 1 photos starting to trickle in now that its ended. You can see them here.

Teesha's Yarn- Chapter 2

Here's a peek at the next section of Teesha's yarn that I'm spinning. I'm using fabric scraps for this one and a few add-in's to embellish. I've got lots of fun bits (beads, charms, etc) that I'll be plying in when the whole yarn is finished. I'd better make a note to self the order of each section I've spun, as I'm going to have to thread all those bits on my ply thread to correspond to each section!

Teesha's Yarn Project

I've been wanting to make a yarn for Teesha Moore for ages now. When I met her last year, I mentioned the project to her and she generously offered me some fabric collage sheets to use. Since then I've been thinking about the technical aspects of the project, gathering and assembling bits and waiting for my muse to visit. She finally came round the other night and I've started work at long last! Here is a peek at the first pile of fibers to be spun... There was more additions than what is shown here, but it should give you an idea. The whole yarn will be made up of entirely different sections- like pages in one of Teesha's journals, each section will be unique but will compliment the others. For this project I'm using every spinning trick I know, and have come up with a new addition that I hope will work out as planned. I'll post pic's of each section I'm about to spin and keep you posted on where I'm at in the project.

ArtFest 2009 Confirmation!

Got confirmation in the mail that I made it in to ArtFest 2009! I've got classes with Linda & Opie O'Brien on Thursday, Theo Ellsworth on Friday and Micheal DeMeng on Saturday. Can't wait!!!

ATC Trades for ArtFest 2009

ATC Trades for ArtFest 2009
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Getting started on trades for ArtFest!

ArtFest 2009

Registration for ArtFest 2009 opened up this past week, and hopefully I'll get to attend this time around. I've sent in my registration, however this event fills up FAST and my paperwork is still in the postal system. I've got my fingers crossed! I attended last year's ArtFiberFest and completely thrived on the energy and atmosphere. ArtFest is like ArtFiberFest to the 5th degree drawing 500+ people, whereas AFF was a modest 150 or so. I'm holding my breath until the confirmation parcel arrives. 

Cyber Fyber Exhibition 2009

Cyber Fyber Exhibition 2009
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Cyber Fyber is an international Postcard & ATC swap hosted by Susan Lenz, that will be exhibited at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in downtown Columbia, South Carolina January 8-20th 2009. The focus of the exhibition is to highlight the influences of internet access for todays fiber artists. To participate in the swap and/or sponsor this event please visit: 

Cyber Fyber Exhibition

More from the Scrap Pile

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Here is another yarn spun from salvaged bits from various projects. This yarn contains wool, alpaca, angora, recycled silk, some unidentified sheer fabric and burned out velvet.

still single

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This yarn was spun from merino fiber carded up with felty bits I received in a swap with Wooldancer in Australia.

the single life...

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I seem to be favoring singles here lately...

Extreme Tweed

Extreme Tweed
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Extreme Tweed

Extreme Tweed
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Extreme Tweed

Extreme Tweed
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Natural silver romney wool carded with lots of fiber scrapage!

Art in a Carton

Art in a Carton
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Here are two of the cartons I put together... I've got another finished and 3 more to make.

ATC 's in the Works

ATC 's
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I've been slowly working on these. They are made of watercolor paper I had done some printing on during a journal making workshop. The second layer is made up of leftover bits of painted papers and end cuts from other mixed-media projects. I have one more layer of textile elements to add before they are finished.

Art in a Carton

Here is the contents of what I received in my Art in a Carton. This came from Germany. I tried to upload a pic of the carton, but for some reason blogger and my new mac book just are not working well together. It took me ages just to get this photo to upload. Blogging through flickr seems to work at light speed, however I can only blog one pic at a time unless I put together a mosaic.