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Autumn & Winter ShapeShifters

Have a look over on my EclecticYarn website where I’ve posted about two new fibre artworks for a gallery exhibition:
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ShapeShifters range page

These are called “Autumn Forest” and “Winter Forest”. Guess what I’ll be working on next…

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Safe Nights supported by stitched villages

Click the link below to read the post on my Eclectic Yarn site, with details of the donations I’m making to Women’s Refuge from sales of my “Quirky Villages” fibre artworks.

Quirky villages support Women’s Refuge

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New ranges: Gumtrees and Yuletide

No sooner had the Kāpiti Coast Art Trail  (November 2024) – for which I stitched a lot of new fibre artworks, including Vivid Forests – ended when it was time to prepare for the Kāpiti Arts and Crafts Society’s Christmas-New Year Exhibition in Kāpiti Gallery.

I completed two triptychs: Gum Tree Triptych (ii) because I’ve decided not to sell the first one, and Black and Red Villages Triptych (i), the latest in my Quirky Villages series, and began a new Yuletide range, an evolution from my Vivid Forests!

The next couple of Yuletide works will be variations on Christmas Candles, either in groups of three or quartets representing the liturgical Hope, Peace, Joy and Love – works in progress just now.

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Fibre art has its own site

My Eclectic Yarn pages and updates were beginning to take over this site, which was meant to be just an overview of my creative endeavours – so I’ve created a unique website. I’d love you to FOLLOW me on the new site, as well as this one.

All the fibre art pages from this showcase site have been transferred to the new one, and there’ll be plenty more new and updates from eclectic yarn, especially as I create new things and prepare for the 2023 Kapiti Arts Trail in November.

Sunshine on Fields of Gold

(July 2023) This cushion, “Sunshine on Fields of Gold”, has been awarded the Crafts prize at the winners of Kāpiti Arts and Crafts Society’s annual Art and Craft Awards. Judged by Penny Eames and sponsored by Forsyth Barr, the Society awards prizes in both Art and Craft sections.

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Fibre artworks – double happiness!

One of the photos accompanying an article I wrote about a fibre art commission, “Da Bees”, has made the cover of March 2023 Creative Fibre (New Zealand) magazine.

And one of my entries in the national Creative Fibre Exhibition at Pataka Art & Museum (Porirua, Wellington Region) already has a red sold sticker!

My entries: “Enchanted Forest” stitched fibre artwork (behind me) and the small, bright turquoise “Swirling Summer Seas” scrumble knit work.

I’ve also made a couple of works for the “Squares, squares, squares” challenge at the Festival of Fibres event at the end of the month – see previous post.

Squares, squares, squares

Latest fibre artworks: for the NZ Creative Fibre “Festival of Fibres” Event challenge later this month:

Two more Silver Birch Forest works, and a couple more ‘works in progress’ – stitching is finished but still deciding whether to frame or make into a bag or cushion