Yarn Hollow

08/23/2025

Progress

08/06/2025

Due on 8-13. Working my fingers to the bone to get this done.

04/13/2025

Looking more hand-like.

03/14/2025

Teaching a class at the at the the weekend of April 26 and April 27. Kiarts.org to sign up.

02/02/2025

Take my class! Dye a palette of colors on embroidery thread, 6-strand floss, and a variety of cotton fabrics in the first day. Second day, we stitch with the threads and fabrics to create abstract pieces!
It's going to be great fun, and you'll learn a lot while making art!

01/29/2025

Movement on a new piece of *whatever.*

10/27/2024

Fishing on Otter Lake in Houghton county, mi. A balmy 28 degrees at 8am. Fish decided the water was too cold and descended to further depths. We had nibbles but no bites on the lures. Thanks to my cousin Chris for taking us out on the boat! It was a beautiful morning!

10/27/2024

Last light on Brockway mountain last night, Saturday day, October 26. Silhouette is Neil who road tripped with me too go see Sophia at MTU.

09/27/2024

In progress...

06/05/2024

Working on what was to be a tablecloth, but I've changed my mind and it's going to be a full size quilt. Paper-pieced scraps from many sources. This is a great way to improve your hand-sewing skills, and to decompress after a busy day. I can work on this before bed and then I sleep through the night.

06/03/2022

In 2020 just before the pandemic, I made a pact with myself to only do fiber arts work that expressed internal emotion or was relevant to a message I was trying to communicate. It had to be personal. Basically, no more production work - with the exception for class samples or step-outs. In this pact, I also committed to not underselling my work ever again. About a year later as I was unearthing items from the Great Studio Moves of 2019 and 2020, I found a piece of fabric, the twin of whom I set on fire in a timing experiment gone wrong in 2018. 2017 through 2019 were very discombobulating years, and at the time of this experiment, setting fabric on fire accidentally was par for the course. I didn't think then "wow this will be a great base for a piece." I thought "I am a du***ss who does dumb things" and chucked it away to hide.

When this fabric was unearthed, it delighted me. It showed me how far away from Discombobulation City I'd travelled. I started just "doing things" on this fabric as the spirit moved me. I took it to Ireland with me and stitched a lot to distract myself from anxiety of the driving. (Bravo to my sister who drove and did a marvellous job). The designs on the piece represent many different facets of 2017 through 2019, the experiment, the emotion, the confusion.

This year I entered this piece in the Regional Arts Exhibit as part of Festival Grand Rapids and to my delight and surprise it was selected to be exhibited. Two weeks later, I had an email that this piece won a monetary award. I am beyond thrilled and excited and surprised.

You can see this piece at Grand Valley Artists from now through June 30. LowellArts is hosting award winners at their gallery from July 8 through August 13 and you can see this piece there as well. Thank you to the organizers and volunteers who help make this possible.

07/12/2021

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