While 2024 was a year for making fiber vessels, 2025 is quickly turning into the Year of Fiber Art Portraits! By the way, if you’re new here, welcome. This isn’t just the first post of 2025, it’s the first post I’ve made in six months! I’ll try to be better, but to see what I’m …
Convergence, here we come!
Are you going to be at Convergence* next week? I hope so, and I also hope that you drop by my classroom to say hi. No, at this moment, I have no idea where my classroom might be. As a Convergence newbie, I’m taking it one day at a time. While I’m clueless about …
It’s been a long seven weeks
It’s been a long seven weeks… If you follow along on Instagram, you know that way back on March 11, I had ankle surgery. They cleaned out the detritus from bone-on-bone arthritis and tightened up my slacker ligaments. Sure, I’ve never broken or even sprained the ankle; I spent a lifetime walking all those …
Tynan, 2008-2024
On March 28, after celebrating his 16th birthday, Tynan, the original High on Hooking Dog, left us for a place of eternal food on demand and no more pain. To say that we’re sad here is an understatement. Tynan was the last of his litter of eight. He celebrated his birthday with kielbasa, Costco chocolate …
Stories Are Made Loop By Loop
HOLES to be part of STORIES ARE MADE LOOP BY LOOP, curated by Susan Feller Stories Are Made Loop By Loop is all about contemporary rug hooking being done with fabric, yarn, and plastic and how an “old” technique is still being used to tell stories and for self expression. Susan premiered the exhibit last …