Forest Jewels
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Karen Anderson |
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Designer: |
Karen Anderson |
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As you enter my home, the piece is sitting on the bookcase with the three ribbons hanging below. |
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At
the 1999 ANG Atlanta Seminar, I took the class, Adventures:
Leaves, taught by Pat Morse and Mary Ellen Searcy. In this
class, we learned many different ways we could make leaves – leaves of
needle lace, leaves made with fabric and leaves made on dissolving fabric
(Solvy). We also dyed, stamped and manipulated fabric and other
items. The last day we were challenged to take our bits and pieces
and design a piece with them. This is my design. Once
I got started, I couldn’t stop – everything just fell into place and I
had to see what the finished piece would look like.
To me, it suggests a forest floor.
The dyed ultra suede on the left reminds me of a tree trunk.
I called the piece Forest Jewels because of the many
"jewels" in the piece - the leaves, the shiny tracery of thread
on the leaves like a spider web, the rocks, even the bugs and beetles
represented by the small beads placed on the piece. I
owe the final finished look to the excellent framer I had, Dunville
Gallery in West Seattle.
If you find a good framer, treasure him or her.
They can make a good piece look great! |
(Editor’s Note: Karen’s “Forest Jewels” is featured on the cover of the January 2001 issue of Needle Pointers.)
