Photos of Fiberworks 07 at IAO

Fiberworks 2007 exhibit is now showing at the IAO Gallery until June 30th. They have some photos of the exhibit on their website. I don't know why but they chose to show a close up of my Time in Space so I'm honored. http://www.iaogallery.org/htmlpages/events/fiberworks07.htm

Felted Nuno Scarf

Here is the felted nuno scarf that I made in Lynn Craigie's class at Studio Mid Del. Lynn is a great teacher and it was a fun class.

This is all wet felted and was not machine needle felted. It is very thin and light weight. It has a layer of black cheese cloth sandwiched between layers of merino wool roving. The back side is black and the front was a mixture of black and gray roving with added strands of gray silk noile covered with purple roving.

Fiberworks 2007

We had the opening reception for Fiberworks 2007 on June 2nd. Heather Winslow was the juror and she did an excellent job. Here is a photo of Heather on the left and Karen Collier on the right, who is the president of Fiber Artists of Oklahoma. FAO sponsor's the show and Karen presented the $3900 of awards to several artists.

I entered three pieces, had two accepted, and won a General Award of Merit ($250) for Time In Space. It's an excellent exhibit and will be on display at the IAO Gallery in OKC until June 30th. Time Marches On is the other piece that was accepted but I haven't taken a photo of it yet. A friend took this photo of Time in Space and sent it to me, thank you Shirley!

Metcalfe Museum Gallery Talk

I was invited to show my work at the Metcalfe Museum in Durham, Okla. this summer. I have 18 pieces that will be on display from June 9 to August 30. The opening reception was yesterday and I had to give a gallery talk. Now let me tell you, I have a terrible fear of speaking in public so this was not an easy task for me but I survived. The people in attendance seemed very interested in my work and asked very good questions. It was a pleasure to see all my work on display in a gallery.

The Metcalfe Museum was built around 2002 so it is a new facility and it was built to house Augusta Metcalfe's art work. You can read about the gallery on their website at http://www.metcalfemuseum.org/ and see Augusta's work.

Nuno Felting Sample

I took a class last night with Lynnie Craigie and this is the little sample of nuno felting that I made. I'm looking forward to the second half of the class next week when we will make a scarf.

Time Marches On in progress

This is the piece I'm currently working on. I have completed the felting but I'm still adding hand embroidery. I used my jelly rolls in this piece. I cut slices and then decided to pull them apart and open them up. I left some of the slices intact and needled felted them into the background. I need to get this finished by the 26th of this month to enter it into Fiberworks.

Our cat, Dudley, is surveying the new floor. The wall we started on is 58' long. We have installed 10' of flooring from the wall.

Dudley has been our supervisor. He watches our every move to make sure we are doing a good job!

You can see some of the boxes of flooring on the floor and the cutter on the right.

Installing the Floor

Ron and I have started laying the floor in our loft. It will be so nice when it's finished! I was getting tired of plain dusty old unsealed concrete. This is vinyl plank flooring that is 6" x 36" in a hickory color. It's a floating floor system so the planks have glue where they interlock with each other but they are not glued to the floor. It's really easy for a novice to install and believe me we are novices.

Work in Progress

I'm working on a new felted piece so I will have something to enter in Fiberworks 2007. I haven't decided on the title of this yet but it will be something about "trying to contain time". Any name suggestions, anyone? This is made from my Felting Fabric and embellished with hand embroidery. I'm painting a canvas to mount it on and then it will be finished.

Felted Jelly Rolls!

I made felted jelly rolls this weekend! Aren't they cool! I will use them in a needle felted project very soon (I hope!). This is my first attempt at doing something like this so I still have a lot to learn and want to make the next ones differently. They are made from prefelt fabric that I purchased from Outback Fibers online and I added wisps of wool roving in the orange/brown roll on the right and wisps of silk roving in the black/purple/green on the left. The silk roving didn't show up like I wanted it to.