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Full Moon Indigo Dyeing: April
Ah! Happy Spring!It's been an absolute whirlwind of activity around here...I'll tell you more soon....maybe...unless better and more exciting things get here first!I have been playing with shibori all...
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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...
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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...
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Salt Spring Island Studio Opening!
The Studio is now open! The retail studio space is now open and welcoming visitors....Most days from 11:00am- 5:00pm.344 Fulford-Ganges Road-Salt Spring Island, BC. Do stop in-I'd love to see you! A...
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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...
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Catching up....
Oh My! I've been in and out of town....preparing for gallery shows, preparing for fiber trade shows, preparing for studio visitors.....a summer whirlwind of wool and colour.... But now I'm...
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Summer Colours-July
So it's not quite tomorrow, as in when I said I was going to post the finished pictures of these.....but taking into account summer time, island time and Fiona time...I'm feeling pretty happy to be...
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July Eco-Print Bundles, with Ginny Huber
This weekend I had the pleasure of meeting feltmaker and dyer Ginny Huber. We had been chatting a bit back an forth about our local, west coast dyes, and making eco-prints. This week she was visiting...
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Natural Dyeing with Lupines
Several years ago now, I had the chance to visit a place that was a sort of mecca for me....Taos, New Mexico, and more specifically, La Lana Wools.....a shop dedicated to plant dyed wools in all...
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Small Things
It's been busy, busy in the studio the last few weeks....and maybe more busy in my head as I clear house and make way to fulfill my destiny (doesn't that sound grand! It just popped into my...
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Fall Happenings....
I'm immersing myself more and more in my creative journey...more and more into exploring feltmaking and dyeing in my own way...exercising consciousness through the process and the artistic impetus...
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Fall Felting Retreat- October 12-14th, 2012
The dates and details are set for a relaxing, revitilizing, energizing fall felting retreat - I am so looking forward to this event! The retreat will run on October 12th, 13th, and 14th, 2012.All of...
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New Felt Market Bag
The day started out with this...a blank canvas...perfect white simplicity.....ready for some colour play...Two layers of blue faced leicester, then two layers of Finn...BFL on the inside for a soft...
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SaltSpring Island Fall Felting Retreat
Foxglove Farm, SaltSpring Island, British Columbia October 19/20/21st, 2012 10:00am-4:00pm + evenings The British Columbia retreat will be hosted at the very beautiful and charming Foxglove Farm. The...
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Inspired by Joomchi
I recently came across two books...images on the covers that stopped my steps and set my heart beating a little faster....Yesterday's studio inspiration came from Joomchi and Beyond by Jiyoung Chung....
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Joomchi Felting 2
Felting with resists to create interesting surfaces....an exploration in materials...I'm enjoying tossing around in my head the language of another craft, Joomchi, while exploring this...
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Sea Constellations
The last two weeks have been the most delicious, intense, creative times...My cousins/kindred spirits have been visiting from New Zealand. Family that I have only met a handful of times, often with a...
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Joomchi Felt Reflections
This is my most recent in the series of scarves/wearables I've been making, inspired by the Korean art of Joomchi- a paper art form and process. The exploration has culminated in pieces that hold...
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Golden in the (Felt) Garden
Wow. What a golden month it has been....gold in colour and experience. This was our shimmery lake view from the cottage in Quebec where the first Fall felting retreat was hosted. Oh so busy, and the...
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A November Dye Walk
Foxglove Farm was the location of the Salt Spring Fall Felting retreat; one with a an abundance of wonderful plant materials to chose from for the eco-dyeing segment of the dyeing day of the retreat....
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