Fiber Art

What do my pictures mean to me? Many are inspired by the content of daydreams that eclipse troubling thoughts and feelings, transforming them into entertaining (sometimes silly) narratives that lift my spirits.

This week, I am sharing a simple beginner pattern. This pattern will teach you the basics of crocheting in the round, increasing in the round, and finishing a round. These are simple round coasters. If you can join a ring, double crochet, chain, and slip stitch, you can make these…

Lives a woman Like earth tapestry Sky-light silk One thousand strands per inch The strongest material on the planet Does not belong to the spider’s webbing after all But in the fibril makeup of a Green eyed, Osage woman In Oklahoma Silk-screen printing the universe One swipe at a time …

When Robert Forman first glued his mother’s embroidery thread to a collage back in high school, he wasn’t planning on making a career out of it. Some 50 years later, the New Jersey-based “yarn painter” is still illuminating the world around him using colorful skeins of string. “Although these works…

This week, I am sharing one of the first knitting patterns I ever wrote. It is a very basic pattern, but it incorporates a few stitches and skills that every knitter needs to know. …

I don’t hoard or save many things. Except fabric. I can’t help it, I have so much of it but I don’t always have the right piece. These days I am being a little stricter with myself and trying to work through some of the older stash items. However I…

Like carcasses hung from meat hooks, emerging artist Ophelia Arc’s fiber sculptures submit to the relentless tug of gravity as yarn mimics flesh falling from bone. The multidisciplinary artist’s work incorporates new media — sound, video, and projection — to amplify sinewy fiber sculptures that resemble raw, open wounds. “I’m…

This week, I am sharing a simple beginner pattern. This pattern will teach you the basics of crocheting in the round, increasing in the round, and finishing a round. These are simple round coasters. If you can join a ring, double crochet, chain, and slip stitch, you can make these…