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Welcome back to the wonderful world of Fiber Arts Friday!
This week I’d like to take the time to introduce you to my sister-in-law Kathleen Lang Klik, who is a very talented photographer and jewelry designer. You might remember me mentioning her a while back in a post about felting beads with alpaca. Well, as it turns out Kathy took her new found knowledge of bead felting and turned it into a beautiful work of jewelry art. The necklace she created from those alpaca beads was recently featured in the magazine Bead Trends.
Of course I’m very proud that she chose to entitle the piece “Dutch Hollow” in honor of the alpacas who supplied the fiber for her beads. Kathleen has such a great eye for the art of jewelry making and I really enjoyed the textures, shapes and sizes she chose for this piece.
I hope her work and the attention it is getting inspires more artists to look to alpaca fiber beyond its traditional uses.
Fiber Arts Friday Exclusive! If you’d like to see more of Kathleen’s work, she has been gracious enough to offer FAF readers a 10% discount at her Etsy Store!
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It’s been a busy work week and with the weather now above freezing I’ve actually worked my horses 3 nights this week despite the rain. What I’m trying to say is, I’ve been fiber lazy.
So I dug through my tubs and photo albums and searched for something I could at least write about. What I found were old photos of some needle felt farm animals I made for everyone at our Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago.
At the time I had just learned how to needle felt and what better way to practice a skill than making cute little giveaways to family and friends? I ended up making 22 of them in all.
I’m not sure what happened to the “alpaca.” It ended up looking like a bizarre cross between a llama and a giraffe. The Pig was my most favorite character. I made oinking noises almost the whole time I felted him LOL
Alpaca
Sheep
Piggy!
Horse
My felting skills eventually got a bit better and I attempted some birds like this chickadee. I should really get back into doing some needle felting. It is a whole lot of fun.
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The Ground may be covered with snow and another storm on the way but
visions of spring cria are dancing in my head!
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