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Another layered centerpiece of paint, ink, chiffon, etc heavily stitched with pieced borders & machine quilted, After my first textured forest piece, I felt I needed to continue exploring the textures and depth of trees and forests. I plan to do more of these.

The canvas was painted, inked, printed & had hand painted paper towels applied. The central design is dyed silk that has been embellished with painted tyvek, hand embroidery & beads I painted the canvas first, with no preconceived idea about what I planned to do with it. I went through my stash of dyed silksContinue reading “Tidal Pool

Cathy Mendola

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Wet felted using merino wool fibers, silk fibers, bamboo fibers, alpaca fibers and hand dyed silk chiffon with hand dyed cheesecloth. This was truly an experiment with no idea of how it would turn out. I wanted the feeling of forest greenery illuminated by sunlight. I love how it turned out!

Hand stitched & beaded. I started this piece during an NSNG workshop. I continued to add layers of stitching & beading until the piece resembled a spring garden of flowers.

Discharged fabric & commercial fabrics, wire wrapped sand dollar pieces, machiine quilted, fused. The discharged fabrics echo the shapes of the broken sand dollar pieces as well as mimic shifting sands from the ocean’s tide. The fabric directly behind the sand dollars resembles water bubbling in a tide pool.

Wet felting, beads, driftwood, feathers. This was done during a mini-worksop. My first-ever attempt at wet felting. I used to create vessles in clay but fiber is my first love so this opened up a whole new world for me! I’m addicted to felting now!

Bead embroidery, bead weaving, driftwood, coral, beach glass, seashells. I puchased the large white nowlite donut not knowing what I would do with it. One day while cleaning my studio I saw the piece of coral & it grew from there. Bits & pieces of items found at the beach.