A Peek Into My Studio and Recent Project.

Hi! My name is Frances. I am the monitor on Thursday afternoons in the Textile Lab. Some of you may have come across me there, and, some of you may have met me in one of the many classes offered at Lill Street as a fellow classmate. My main areas of interest are printing on fabric, embroidery, and felting. I have been felting for a couple of years now and have sold my nuno-felt scarves and other felted items at craft fairs. One of the things that I am working on is setting up an online store with Artfire so I can sell online. Presently, I am cleaning up my little studio space (a small corner of the basement) and reorganizing after the chaos that came with the holidays. It looks a lot more organized now.



For the last couple of weeks I have mostly been working on embroidery projects (you can check out my blog through the link under staff at the far right of this page if you wish to see and read more regarding my embroidery projects). However, I recently started laying out wool for a wall-hanging. For Christmas my mom bought me some Finn wool directly from a place called Piiku in Finland. She got me what they call roving which is actually an even thinner version of pencil roving (next time we will get the carded fleece). I already had some natural colored Finn wool (that I hadn't really used yet) from another place here in the U.S. called Misty Mountain Farm (a form of roving I am more accustomed to). So, since I have not worked much with Finn wool outside of making a small sample, nor have I worked with such thin roving before, I decided this was the perfect opportunity to experiment. So here are a couple pictures of where I am at so far (there are still several more design elements I want to add before wetting down the wool and felting it). I will post pictures of the finished product when I am done (either here or on my personal blog).




Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this small look into my studio space and what I have been doing.

Thank you,
Frances