2013 – Page 4 – Fine Art of Fiber

Electric Sky
Shelley Brucar

Painted fabric, machine stitched. Inspired by many walks in forest preserves.

Heart of the Sea I
Shelley Brucar

Hand-dyed & painted; machine stitched; wrapped on stretcher bars.

Heart of the Sea II
Shelley Brucar

Hand-dyed & painted; machine stitched; wrapped on stretcher bars.

Interesting Color for a Blackbird
Shelley Brucar

Hand-dyed, screened & layered fabrics; machine stitched. Part of traveling exhibit inspired by the Wallace Stevens poem, “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”.

Birch Grove
Shelley Brucar

Hand-dyed & snow-dyed fabric. Needle-felting; machine stitched.

Esmeralda II
Diana Burrows

Machine pieced, hand quilted. It was made from fabric rejected by many.

Tucking, machine piecing, fusing, machine & hand embroidery, machine & hand quilting, dyeing, colored pencils, embellishments. I love trees and landscapes. My 7 year old granddaughter loves to draw. I took some of her drawings & copied them out to use.