Exhibition Year Archives

The Flies, Dragon and Butter

Carole Bates

Hand needle turn applique, hand quilted, embroidery. This piece is hand needle turn applique and hand quilted. Original design for wreath and border. Flower and dragonfly from Mary Sorenson’s “What’s the Buzz” pattern.

A Study in Gray & Violet

Esther Behnke

Machine pieced with trim and machine quilted. It took a long time to choose the right pattern to showcase the grays I collected and set them off with the lilacs and violets.

Tea with Frida (Felted Teapot)

Cynthia Boudreau

Felted teapot with beaded embellishments. Inspired by Frida Kahlo, this felted teapot with removeable felted stopper is a hollow resist created shape. Embellished with felted flowers, beads and milagro charms.

Landscape I

Cynthia Boudreau

Nuno felted from silkscreened and hand dyed silk and wool materials. Hand embellished with beading. Inspired by Frida Kahlo, this felted teapot with removeable felted stopper is a hollow resist created shape. Embellished with felted flowers, beads and milagro charms.

Landscape II

Cynthia Boudreau

Nuno felted from silkscreened and hand dyed silk and wool materials. Hand embellished with beading. Felted wall piece inspired by land and water shapes, created with resists from hand dyed and silk screened silk and wool materials. Hand beaded.

Bubbling Up (Felted Teapot)

Cynthia Boudreau

Felted teapot shape with removeable stopper. Embellished with acrylic balls and glass beads. Inspired by feelings “bubbling up”, the familiar shape of a teapot brings comfort. Separate stopper on hollow felted teapot embellished by glass and acrylic beads.

Pod (Felted Teapot)

Cynthia Boudreau

Felted teapot shape with resist created openings and separate stopper, embellished with beading and charms. Inspired by seed pods, this felted teapot with separate removeable stopper has unique resist formed shapes embellished with beading and charms.

Shed Skin

Roberta Bragg

Hand knit. Days of driving; little sleep./ Turnpike rest stop./ Away from the cars and into the trees./ There, in a small clearing, She stood./ Trunk like a dancer’s body arched back./ A sweep of slim branches and leaves – hair swept back./ Wrinkled bark open to sky./ 2 small branches tipped with sparre leavedContinue reading “Shed Skin

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Natural Glitz

Joan Bratton

Hand beaded and stitched, machine quilted. Natural Glitz is the result of a workshop with Lisa Binkley. We each selected a print to work on and then designed the embellishments in collaboration with Lisa.

Corallina, Goddess of the Reefs

Shelley Brucar

Stiffened fabric, surface design, paper collage, beading. My goddess series is about strong women. Some of these goddesses are from mythology and some are imagined by me. Corallina protects our reefs which are being bleached and are dying as a result of warming seas. Fabric and paper sculpture.

Medeina, Goddess of the Forest

Shelley Brucar

Stiffened fabric, surface design, paper collage, beading. My goddess series is about strong women. Some of these goddesses are from mythology and some are imagined by me. Medeina is the Baltic goddess of the Forest. Fabric and paper sculpture.

Solara, Goddess of the Eclipse

Shelley Brucar

Stiffened fabric, surface design, paper collage, beading. My goddess series is about strong women. Some of these goddesses are from mythology and some are imagined by me. Solara was inspired by a friend who had great excitement about and traveled. Far for the best possible viewing of the August eclipse.

Graffiti Trees 2

Shelley Brucar

Surface design, paper collage. The Graffiti Trees series grew out of my love for birch trees. After the first Graffiti Trees piece, I wanted to see what these trees would look like in the sunset. Paper collage.

Bon Marriage

Penny Burns

Hand quilted/embroidered. I made this quilt for a dear friend in Paris on the occasion of her marriage. Her favorite places are embroidered on the map.