American Craft

Ok Ok its been awhile since I have been here.
But I have been working on a project that I really liked.

American Craft Magazine asked artist if they would like to take some of their Vintage Photo's and use them however they wished.

After receiving my photo's and looking at all the wonderful work that had been done, my thought was how to preserve the art, and how to inspire more creativity.

So I bought a young girls sun dress and distressed it by taking out the color.

Then I transfered the photo's onto the dress, added crochet and buttons. Stitched by hand and then after much delay,( because I hated the thought of cutting up these photo's) I cut and folded some of the photo's into butterflies and attached them to the dress.

It came out very whimsical and fun. I can almost see her dancing in a field of wild flowers in the summer.

Thanks for looking...

Had a great workshop with Dagmar Binder at Jennifer Hoag's. It was full of new and some old friends.
We started out with making cuffs,( sounds easy right) well 11 hours later we drug ourselves out of there in time for dinner(drinks) and bed.

Next day we started our tops, did I mention math was involved at hour 9 of last night so we could make our pattern. 11 1/2 hours later still working.

Friday, fulling and sewing and ta da I will load the images tomorrow. To exhausted to do it now.

But I had a lovely time with everyone who attended, which is really rare lets face it.

The best hostess in the world Jennifer Hoag, and lets not talk about the store from heaven.
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Dagmar was a great teacher who had patience sometimes with us and other times just looked at us like we had two heads. But we all got a beautiful piece of art work from her instructions.

So that's it for now and tomorrow or the day after will post the pics.

P.S. One of Kind bed and breakfast is a beautiful place to stay if you are in Burlington Vermont.

For Brother's Garden

For my Brother Dwayne, hope you like and send me pictures of the bird that decides to live in it...

This was created with merino batt and wool. Then embroidered.

Birdhouse in summer

I am going to try and take pictures throughout the seasons of my birdhouse. I like that the morning glories have now taken roost.

This is my felted bag.

The back with the crazy pink pocket, and embroidery.

The front.

It almost gets lost in the foliage.

My Label.

Here you see my first vest. I used a batt and some locks, which started off a cream color.

Then I decided to dye the piece dark brown.

Well the day before I dyed a skirt dark green and when I was reading the directions it said you should use two dark colors to enrich the color you want.


So I put the vest into the dark green dye bath overnight.


The next day I pulled out the vest and fell in love with this color.

So this is where we are for right now.

What do you think?

Birdhouse Condo for rent or sale

This is my first attempt at making a felted vessel. I had alot of fun and didn't realize how strong felt can really become.

The embroidery was nice to do as I watched TV at night, I just don't know how long it will last in the elements.

The fun part will be taking pictures through the seasons and seeing just how it will hold up.

I wonder if a bird will actually nest in it. How exciting that would be!

I think I will have to make another one to keep this one company.

My brother said he could see alot of these hanging at my grandparents house with a for sale sign on them. He probably knew that I would catch the bug and make a few more.

A closer look and you can see the foot prints on the deck.