Dixboro

On Saturday, August 1 I will have a booth at the Dixboro fair in Ann Arbor. Here are some of the things that I will be offering for sale: Hat Stands Little painted boxes in three sizes, each with a different animal on them


Hand felted objects (Elf Shoes)
Painted furniture (Bird Magazine Rack)
And ceramic objects (Birch Bird Feeder)

Winter Projects

I made several new projects this winter. The first one is called "Plant Heart," made of wool (dyed wool roving and hand-spun yarn), glass beads, and sycamore branches. The yarn was spun by my friend, Allie.

















The next piece I did was a series of crows made out of black wire. I mounted them onto fabric which is embroidered with wire crow forms. Some of the embroidered crows have wire parts coming out of the
fabric.







After that piece I felted several newborn baby birds, these are made entirely out of wool.

Felting

Yesterday I hand-felted my first 3-d object: a pair of little slippers! They needed a little something extra, so I appliqued on little wool felt acorns and oak leaves, then added a pair of "cat bells" from Germany.

I'm in a juried show! There were over 200 submissions and only 38 pieces got in. Two of my pieces were accepted: Teapot, which is made entirely out of teabags, and Goose Calls, which is a seriese of six party horns, each a different breed of goose. I was the only artist who had more than one piece accepted, so I'm very proud.