No matter how hard I try, the colors around me always seep into my work.  Now that it's winter I'm adding more black to my formula to get a deeper color.  Next I want to explore adding lots of black to yellow and see if I can get "deep chartreuse."

Art for the Wall
Tahoe Blue nuno felted merino on silk with Beads.
First I made a jacket.  I felted the remnants onto a wool rug backing.
The added beads following the shibori lines.
The colors are the same colors of blue we saw when we visited my son who lives near Lake Tahoe.

Hemp Roll Collar Duster

Hemp roll collar duster, size medium.  I cut the fabric in two pieces and shibori dyed them separately, pole wrapper, pre soaked in a soda ash solution.  I used yel orange with black which created the greenish hue.  I used to try and get all the white out.  Now I surrender and let it become part of the texture and design.

Hand felted using the FeltLOOM
Alpaca, merino and silk gauze
Shibori dyed, pole wrapped
How to shibori dye
For a primitive effect, the bottom edges are unfinished

Raw Silk Duster with Crepe Scarf

What I learned with this duster is the difference when I presoaked the raw silk in a solution of vinegar and water.  I rope wrapped each piece which was precut for the finished design. The patterns are more fluid and pale.  There is move diversity of colors.  At first I wasn't pleased, however, the more I have viewed and pondered the finish duster, I like it.  The crepe scarf uses the same colors of red, orange and yellow which have been shaded with black.  It was not presoaked, therefore the colors are deeper.  This is one of the looks I plan on featuring in the next Lexington Fashion Collaborative Future of Fashion 4 on June 22 

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Layer your busy life and gather your memories and tools to make art now!

Learn how to create the formulas for the colors that surround you and create a legacy

 

Live the life of an artist by responding instead of reacting!

Create wearable or displayable art

using alpaca, wool, and exotic silk.

Experience the new

UK Fiber Program FeltLOOM,

and the shibori technique for dyeing silk or wool.

 

 Workshop

 Sunday

^{July 8 and July 15}

9 am to 1 pm

 $90 plus supplies

 

Extra time on the FeltLOOM now availble for FAI and UK students.

$45/hour by appointment only

 

Follow color theory and everything you do will be beautiful.

Trust me.  It works.  Even mistakes will be beautiful. 

If I don't like it, I know that someone else will like it!  

Slowly, I'm getting back to my art making routine

Filling every station with a work in progress

Nuno felted merino and alpaca 

waits to be wrapped

Raw silk, rayon and cotton

Wait for a theme, a palette to descend upon me

More for summer? 

Tangerine Copper

 Or is it time to fall into winter? 

Blue Violet

Yesterday I dyed two 44" charmeuse silk scarves in rainbow colors

Today I start a fire in the wood stove

To hasten the drying

When Living a Layered Life There is No Not Process

Shibori

Silk Chiffon 

and 

Merino felted to Silk Devore

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Dress in the window

Shibori

Two 36" square

5mm China Silk scarves

Pole wrap

Fuschia, purple and violet

March 2012

Kentucky Crafted, The Market

Lexington, Kentucky