The art and adventures of Mary Stanley
just finished hooking these woodland creatures and now I need to stitch on a backing fabric (either wool or flannel) and stuff them. These will be for Syd's show in Nov.
another piece of painted and stamped fabric ready to be cut up into strips and woven...
A student warping her loom at the Easy Weaving Class on Tues. Last week the ladies prepared painted fabric to weave into the warp.
I love this poster with the wonderful art by Ojai artist Wendy MaHary. It depicts the festival's theme, "Enriching the human spirit through film."
that I've been working on for Syd's "Queen of Arts" show...the tiny ones will be pins, might add some tin or fabric wings to the back. The velvet hearts with buttons will be ornaments to hang.
I was inspired to make a felt sign for the back of the booth. The girls at the Studio came up with the hanging ribbons attached to felted beads.
Marbled paper book mark samples that we made for Ojai Day. The kids got to try marbling at the Studio's booth all day.
here we have the giant mandala made with chalk on the main intersection downtown.
My latest gnomes amid the herbs and with a mosaic covered bowling ball that I did a while back...It is rather a tricky thing to hook faces....
Pumpkin gets a little friend.....
These wonderful antique folk art pincushion dolls were given to me by my artist friend, Penny for Christmas one year. I just love them so much and the pincushion part looks kind of like a pumpkin! Thank you, Penny!
A circular bowl of recycled papers...
Justin adding some silver glitter to his piece and the finished papers hanging to dry.
and the amazing thing is that they can stand on their own. I was afraid that they would need their tails to balance themselves, but somehow their wire and cloth wrapped feet are holding them up! I tired paper mache on wire, but it wasn't working that well so I dipped the little black wool strips that I use for hooking into the glue water mixture and that did it! I did a little touch up with acrylic paint, let them dry for a day and sewed them into place. My favorite Steiff gnome, Pucki, is in the background watching the crows go by.
I finally finished these toadstools which may go off to a shop soon, so I took a quick photo with one of our garden gnomes. Inside the little door I glued a small Gnome by the magical artist Ida Bohatta from Austria. I love her children's books. This picture is probably from "The Gnome's Almanac"...which I had when I was growing up.
Displays of some of my hooked work and other projects using recycled fibers....The afternoon class was Dye Happy and we did marbling on paper, silk and cotton using several different methods. Photo of Wo and a student putting dyes into the tray prior to marbling on cloth.
I am teaching a class today at the Fibre Arts Design Studio in Ojai,CA !! The class is on Recycled Fiber and I will be teaching the students how to hook a small hot pad with wool strips. We also have braiding with fabric and altered clothing using no sewing complete with a fashion show while we are working on our pieces.
This is a close up of one of Alma's very cool beaded beads...made with hand painted and stitched fabric, stuffed and beaded and hand sewn together...
What a fun surprise! I just received a wonderful package today filled with hand painted fabric, hand made beads, block printed faces and a cool card all from the very talented East coast fiber artist, Alma Stoller almastoller.blogspot.com/. I can't wait to start playing with all these colorful presents. She has some great tutorials on her blog and just this week I was inspired to do some fabric painting on both cotton and silk. Thank you, Alma!
a couple of little wall hangings I made from recycled wool sweaters and embellished with some fun novelty yarns and embroidery thread.
