Sculptural Scarves

This summer I'm exploring ways to incorporate as much three dimensional texture as possible into my work. It such a fun experiment...I love that I can be making items to sell, while playing..... These experiments often involve trips to the hardware store...hardware and building materials seem a good combination with [...]

New Purses

I really love this new dye pattern....I'm seeing it on one whole collection...purses, scarves, jackets...I so want to make the jacket!  I'll be selling these all summer at the studio, and this winter at the shows....  These are all made with Blue Faced Leicester rovings...all in white then dyed after....Beautiful [...]

Pure Potentiality

  I need to order a large amount of wool for the studio this summer...mostly for getting ready for the One of A Kind show this November. I've been trying to decide exactly what wool to get, then came across a solution... a smaller order...a sampling of wool breeds to [...]

touching life….

 A day of family...rather than fibre....    The weather here has been glorious, so I've been making an extra effort to get out with my sons and enjoy some moments.... They are so big- all as tall as me....but we all love a day at the beach...it's like a nervine [...]

Felt Floor

    This is a project we worked on a while ago...another collaboration of wood and wool....   Felt flooring in our living room..... It was such a great, exciting experiment....The idea jumped into view while Graham and I were on the ferry from Vancouver island to Salt Spring one [...]

Felt Armour

  Luckily for me, I had a board meeting to go to yesterday which got me out of the house, into the great bright, white outdoors early in the morning. I needed that reminder to stop working and get outside....  So later in the day we went down to Fulford, [...]

Bold and Dramatic…

Ahhhh...First Felt of 2012 is finished....I'm so happy with the results....It feels like a just the right starting point and direction to head in for this year. My peacock blue plans ventured into inky midnights...  My red (to be purple) mini pocket disappeared into the depths-The purple becoming barely discernible [...]

First Felt 2012

First Felt...isn't that a glorious notion? The other night was movie night here, and I was not that into it, so I ventured outside into the darkness and illuminated my studio....What a refreshing time. I never think to go out there in the evenings......usually by then I'm pretty tired anyway. [...]

Studio Time

Hmmmm.... just not quite how I was expecting it!  Today is my birthday, and my grand plans included felting myself a jacket. At least getting it laid out and started, and I had my sons all ready to help me out with the rolling as a partial birthday gift! BUT! [...]

Happy Holidays!

  I just got a box in the mail this week from my Mother back in the east.  I had no idea what it might be, maybe some early presents for the boys.  I opened it up and read her note...and cried. It's a good thing-by the way! It's not [...]

felt experiments

I have been  working, working, working in the studio recently, and will fill you in on all the details but in an effort to get back into the swing of things here, a few playful pictures of one of today's projects: Using different breeds of sheeps wool in balls and [...]

Uplifting Gifts…

  I just received a package in the mail...a lovely package sent for no particular occasion...just to make me feel happy! What a great surprise and a truly uplifting package it is..both because of the potential of the materials inside and also because of the sweet intention of the sender... [...]

Peace Dove 11-11-2011

This is a project of time and meditation...an idea that sprang into being and had to be made..and although not in accordance to the timing anticipated, maybe the right timing in it's own way. This is my PeaceFelt project. I was completely set to start making this on September 23rd, [...]

Indigo Shibori at Maiwa Symposium

  I 've just returned from my mystery trip! And what an adventure it was! I had two events to attend- The Green Festival in Los Angeles with Living Crafts magazine and then an Indigo Shibori Workshop at Maiwa in Vancouver.   I don't have any pictures from my time [...]

Eco Dyeing October 2011

Hi all,  It's been ages since I've been felting, and I have so many projects I want to get to- lots of woolly experimentation coming soon...... as soon as I get back from a little trip (fibery work trip-yay!) that I'm going on on Thursday. That's all a little ephemeral [...]

Wool Breed Experiments-East Friesian Wool

 I had a lovely visit in the studio this week with local artist, Laura Kiel. She works in both ceramics and felt and will be teaching some felt making at a local school. She came by for some ideas and to make some things together. It was wonderful to meet [...]

A tale of two scarves

  I had my first studio visitors a few weeks ago. The studio is still not finished, but that is another story, and Eva and her friends were very keen to come by...It was so delightful to have people come to my own space, talk to them a little about [...]

Wooly Headed….

  I've been having quite the misadventure during the last few weeks since my full moon indigo dyeing post!   I was gearing up, finishing the studio, to be ready to open my space for October 1st. For an Open Studio, Community Felting event, and to celebrate Felt United. Such [...]

Full Moon Indigo Dyeing

  For at least a month, maybe two, I've been holding the idea of Full Moon Indigo resist dyeing. Somehow indigo and the moon feel connected...is it in the colours of the night, turning cloth from moon white to evening sky blue? The lunar relationship to water and tides, and [...]

Studio Floor-finished!

  Creating this dedicated workspace to make it as inviting, comfortable and inspiring as possible has been a wonderful challenge! It is becoming a space where I want to spend every available minute, and invite others to spend time with me here, also!  This is a corner (back right) that [...]

Flag Folding and Dyeing Scarves

  I dyed this scarf using the traditional flag fold. I don't yet have pictures of how to make these folds, but I think I'll do some this week and add them here.   I folded the scarves in half along the length and folded them up in triangular sections. [...]