Inspiration: Pixies make me smile.
Techniques and materials: Fabric doll with sculpted and painted face and embellished with machine-made lace and beading.
Free standing: 9 inches x 7 inches
Inspiration: Pixies make me smile.
Techniques and materials: Fabric doll with sculpted and painted face and embellished with machine-made lace and beading.
Free standing: 9 inches x 7 inches
Inspiration: Work by set/costume designer Tanit Mendes (d. 2012).
Techniques and materials: Felt, silk, lace, yarn, ink
Free standing: 12 inches x 10 inches
Inspiration: Sustainable art – natural materials.
Techniques and materials: Deerskin, botanical prints, art paper, found papers
Free standing: 5.5 inches x 5.5 inches
Inspiration: Celebrating spring with Kimekomi, an ancient Japanese craft.
Techniques and materials: Fabric, satin cord, and beads over foam egg forms. Hanging ribbon included.
Hung: 2.5 inches x 4 inches
Inspiration: Celebrating butterflies with Kimekomi, an ancient Japanese craft.
Techniques and materials: Fabric, satin cord, and beads on foam eggs. Hanging ribbon included.
Hung: 2.5 inches x 4 inches
Inspiration: Celebrating Christmas with Kimekomi, an ancient Japanese craft.
Techniques and materials: Fabric, satin cord, and beads on foam eggs. Hanging ribbon included.
Hung: 2.5 inches x 4 inches
Inspiration: I think some fairies live in this little mushroom house. They come out at night to do all your mending and hemming while you sleep.
Techniques and materials: This needle felted pincushion sits in a vintage silver-plate cream pitcher. It’s decorated with acrylic flower beads and colourful pins.
Free standing: 5.5 inches x 7 inches
Inspiration: Who would prefer a purple mushroom house? Gnome or fairy? Whoever lives here dances around the swirly lawn when nobody is looking.
Techniques and materials: This needle felted pincushion sits in a vintage silver-plate sugar bowl. It’s decorated with acrylic flower beads and colourful pins.
Free standing: 6 inches x 6.5 inches
Inspiration: Creating comforting summer scenes are my go-to to escape these challenging times. It’s hard to consider this piece ‘finished’. I just want to keep going.
Techniques and materials: Needle felted wool, hand stitched cotton and silk thread, wire, wood and glass
Free standing: 9 inches x 7 inches x 9 inches
Inspiration: A book for a romantic partner, dear friend or daughter, or granddaughter with many spaces to write your own thoughts or add your own images.
Techniques and materials: Paper, matboard, lace, vellum, cotton, beads, leather, metal, gilding wax, purchased images. Cut, painted, pieced, stamped, inked, manipulated.
Free standing: 4.5 inches x 7.5 inches
Inspiration: Foxes are so majestic and absolutely beautiful to behold. My Gerard is a bit of a flirt.
Techniques and materials: Needle felted wool, wire armature
Free standing: 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches x 3.5 inches
Inspiration: A tribute to the military family. Military members (poppy) are supported and made stronger by their families (dandelion).
Techniques and materials: The poppy is wet felted from wool & silk. The seeds of the dandelion are made from silk set into a wool centre.
Free standing: 7 inches x 12 inches x 4.5 inches
Inspiration: Dandelions represent the strength and resilience of military children. The scattered seeds represent the bonds and friendships that develop with each family posting.
Techniques and materials: The seeds are made from 100% silk, set into a needle felted wool core. The stem is wet felted onto wire.
Free standing: 4.5 inches x 10.5 inches x 4.5 inches
Inspiration: This figurine captures the shy, nervousness of a young ballerina just before her first ballet recital.
Techniques and materials: Needle felted with wool and silk on a wire armature. The ballerina’s hair and bodice are adorned with glass seed beads.
Free standing: 5.5 inches x 8 inches x 5 inches