Finella

Here is a full pic of her. I really enjoyed the textile techniques I used with her body - always good when an idea works out!!
I love how she has a textural feel as well as look.

Finella

Well here is a quick pic of my latest doll made for a workshop I will be teaching later in the year. The focus on this pic is the Kingfisher bird which I have needle felted - both by hand and in combination with my needle felting embellisher machine. What fun it was to be able to combine the 2 methods - so much faster, easier and it allowed me to add machine stitch as well. I will posta pic of the rest of the doll shortly. I need to get some good light to photograph her.

Well 2008 is here and another year is rolling into full gear.
The sun is shining, the kids are at the beach and I have some quiet time here at home in my studio - life is great!
I started playing around with some collage papers last night after seeing an article in the last Cloth Paper Scissors mag by Kelly Rae Roberts. I loved the look of her work so I followed her lead and have done one of my own. I loved the easy way I was able to colour the canvas and can see that I will be doing some more of these....maybe with fabric as well as paper and who knows .....maybe even some stitch and embellishment. Anyway, here she is...what do you think?
Now I must away and make the intended use of my freedom....a new doll for a retreat in Fraser Island (AUST) that i have been asked to teach at later this year...I am soooo lucky!