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Seeing the red – Box Elder wood slices
Blog post about combining box elder wood slices and a wool painting of flowers to create a unique wood and wool framed art piece
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Wave or Whale?
Blog about the steps taken to create my Wool and Wood Whale Wave Art including sourcing materials, evolution of the design and building custom frame
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Experiments in mixed media and techniques
Using multiple techniques and different media to create a layered mixed media evening gown design inspired by chipped paint on cement. The layers are Joomchi paper in green, yellow and blue, free motion embroidery on cheesecloth, navy and gold joomchi paper rods and brown nuno felt with green, brown and cream swirls. Each layer is…
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Taking Inspiration From Others and Family Collaborations
My daughter is an incredible artist. She focuses mainly on digital animation (instagram) most days but every once in a while, she brings me something she created in a different genre. A few weeks ago she brought me a bird relief that she had made using the repousse technique and I asked her if she…
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Bridging back into normalcy?
I learned to felt several years ago but it didn’t become my obsession until the last 2 years when I needed a creative outlet to offset a very technical exec role. This week I had my first work trip since the pandemic began and with it, an opportunity to meet colleagues in person for the…
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Creating a needle felted alpaca head
Determining how best to create alpaca hair for a felt faux taxidermy alpaca head.
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Using a warped piece of wood for a unique cottage core centerpiece
I used a piece of warped live edge ash wood to create a felt cottage core, fairy garden, mushroom forest complete with snail
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Spring micro projects – bird pods
Wet felting with a resist to create simple bird pods for spring
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Stained Glass Nuno Felting
Stained glass nuno felting art inspired by live edge walnut slab
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Nuno Felt Table Runner
I had a couple of really long and skinny pieces of silk so I decided to make some table runners. My mom’s favorite color is red and mine is teal so made one for each of us. Each piece of margilan silk that I had was about 15x120in and I didn’t have a table long…
Knothead Design Studio
Mixed Media Fiber and Wood Artist