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Hegira: A SHIFT dress

  Hegira He·gi·ra hiˈjīrə,ˈhejərə/ : any flight or journey to a more desirable or congenial place.  Usually an exodus or migration.  C16: from Medieval Latin, from Arabic hijrah: emigration or flight This is the sisterdress to Migration.  I wanted to take the wishbone sculptural elements and use them in larger, [...]

Rift : A SHIFT dress

  The layouts in this series of dress sculptures were so complex. There were often multiple layers of resists, or else multiple layers of patterning. The designs had to be thought through in that reverse thinking way required when working with resists, and also with transparencies, opacities, and inclusions.  My [...]

The Last Dress

Yesterday I finished the last piece for my exhibition...a little background for you, written as I worked.    Here I am....on the day of the photo shoot of my most recent work. One day before the installation, and two days before the big opening and fashion show. And I'm taking [...]

Craft Guild of Dallas

I left on a great fiber adventure this week... I've been traveling in the United States, completely immersed in felt making and fiber art. First stop was the beautiful Craft Guild of Dallas. It is an amazing facility, with purpose built and architecturally designed studios for many mediums.  I gave an artist lecture [...]

Almost Home….

   I feel as though I'm at the end of a long trip, and as wonderful as the experience has been and as much as I am loving every minute of it, I'm starting to look forward to being home, with friends and family. In this case, home is here, [...]

One More….

How could I miss Claudy Jongstra! CLaudy Jongstra from De Ketelfactory on Vimeo. Just listen to her passion for her process....local wools, natural dyes, scale, aesthetic....oooo.really.stunning. She was not in my mind over the new year, but has been an inspiration to me for years now. Everything about what she [...]

Felt Fashion-2013

This is a bit of a catch up post...Some work from 2013 I didn't share here.  Facebook friends will have seen these images, but I missed writing about them here in the midst of the busy-ness that was Fall.  These pieces and the photographs were an important part of my [...]

Felt Consulting

 I've been having some fun this last week/weekend doing some felt consultancy work for Pollika. Pollika are a fibre company based in Vancouver who are the North American distributors for many European brands, including De Witte Engel and Painters Threads. I've been working with them to develop felting kits for [...]