Art For Your Head "Gracie"

I had so much fun spinning last week. I had forgotten just how much I enjoyed it and how relaxing it is.

Here is Art For Your Head "Gracie" - she came into existence through felting, knitting, spinning and some crochet. She is a lovely for sure.

The neckpiece is not yet finished, but will be listed separately as soon as it is complete. For more pictures please see here:

Art For Your Head "Gracie"



And please... if you have the opportunity, stop by this afternoon/evening for the Wearable Art Market Public Forum discussions

Sunday April 5th, 7 EST, 6 central, 5 mountain and 4 pacific till whenever!

Art will be the subject of course-- inspiration, latest ambitions, recent successes-- or works in progress-- general levels of creativity, chocolate addictions-- Who knows what else and where it will lead? Join us and find out!

The thread will be in the Wearable Art Market public forum--

http://www.1000markets.com/forums/23

Fiber Focus, Soleyne.com & Progress

I came home yesterday to some pretty wonderful things................

Firstly.......... was this: http://fiberfocus.blogspot.com/ and please, while you are there, take a look thru her blog.... she is an incredible writer, always has something interesting to discuss and tell about and has a great group of people here at Fiber Focus ( http://fiberfocus.ning.com/ ).... the other good thing is that her name is Rachel. A very good name indeed :)

Secondly, i received a handful of postcard flyers that are making their way to interested parties as we speak. SOLEYNE ( http://soleyne.com/ ) is a new website, that just finished up its beta testing and seems to be very promising. The mechanisms they had in place during the beta testing were good, the money they've spent to move this project forward seems appreciable, and they are already advertising. This postcard flyer is currently being disbursed at at juried art festival in Tarrytown, New York at Lyndhurst Castle. Please, if you are at all interested in this site, sign up for notification of its doors opening. You can do that at http://soleyne.com/

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ok.... here is the progress on the new Art For Your Head piece, that i featured in the September 7, 2008 entry below.

The first pic shows the back and what i am needle felting into the shapes i want.... i am adding silk in a handdyed green and coral colourway. I want this to be a very 3 dimensional piece. The second pic is showing some of the beadword, (currently strung and pinned on)... i do this so that i can see where i want it to lay and how i want it to travel.... same with the front of the hat.

I've been working on this.....

Here's my progression on the "Josephine" Top.... I am doing it in an incredible shade of indigo blue. I am using Hempton by "Hemp for Knitting" which is a combination of cotton, hemp and modal. It is soft and the drape on this is going to be beautiful.

and here is a taste of one of my new Art For Your Head hats......................

and here are three patterns i am carrying in the DreamWovenSupplies.etsy.com shop (along with the yarn to make any of them. I think my next one will be the 'all over lace' top.

Introducing Art for your Head "Amelia"

She will make her debut on Etsy shortly... but for now i will look at her here :)

Art For Your Head "Amelia".... a bit of old brought new... a bit steampunkish (maybe)... aviator/ascot, hence...."Amelia"

Art For Your Head "Alexis' Train Traveling Ensemble"

Please meet Art For Your Head "Alexis' Train Traveling Ensemble". She was made in honor of my daughter, who is now a young woman out in the world on her own journey.

I am very pleased with how she turned out (both the ensemble as well as my daughter). Needle Felted into a beautiful shapes....

More pictures can be seen at
http://DreamWoven.com/HatsWrapsAlone.htm

She will be available for sale in my Etsy shop: http://DreamWoven.Etsy.com

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