I accompanied my friend Mary Jo (Ice Pond Spinner) to the First Annual North Jersey Fiber Arts Festival in Ridgewood. We worked together setting up her exhibit of roving, yarns, spindles and books, and then she worked her "booth" and I taught 3 workshops.

Here is that pentagon pendant again. Elaine made hers in siam 2ab, shown here strung on 24K gold plated flex-rite beading wire.

Jill wanted a purple pendant to wear to a wedding. She used vitrail ab and emphasized the purple glint by stringing it with purple cylinder beads and crystals.

And while we're talking about color nuances, these two pendants are vitrail. Their beaded chains are identical SAVE the size 8 bead between each crystal. The khaki 8s used in the one on the right lends a bronzey appearance. The silvery look of the one on the left is acheived by substituting the khaki bead with a teal one. I love these subtle color tweakings.

A previously felted and lined purse is the "canvas" for sampling several techniques in embellishment and surface design in a workshop I taught Thursday at Beadzo and will teach this coming weekend at the North Jersey Fiber Arts Festival.
Beads are added with embroidery and as edgings. A felt needle is used to apply color and texture using feathers, colored wool, and synthetic fibers. This weekend I will also teach 2 wet feltmaking classes: a felt flower and felted bangle bracelet. The classes are only $35 each and the materials kept at $10 for each of the wet and $15 for the felted purse and all tools and supplies.
Pictured here are Tara's, Kaja's, Pamela's, Cookie's works in progress from Thursday evening's class at Beadzo in Tivoli, NY. (Website is still coming, meanwhile, their phone number is 845-757-5306 to reserve your seat for the next class (October 15).

October 2&3 I'll be teaching 3 feltmaking workshops at the first annual North Jersey Fiber Arts Festival. Just this morning we firmed up the details. When my friend MaryJo Lanik (of Ice Pond Spinnery) asked if I'd like to join her in her booth there, I was delighted to say yes.
What a wonderful bonus to be teaching workshops there. The workshops are only 1.5 hours and chockful of information and techniques. Priced at $35 each with nominal materials fee, I am hoping some people will sign up for all 3 to learn or add to their repertoire, a range of feltmaking skills.
Both the Hand Felted Bangle Bracelet Workshop and the Hand Felted Flower Workshop teach how to make felt from dyed fine merino wool roving. The workshops explore form and structure, using a painterly approach to surface design and finish with sculpting and shaping.
The Turbo Felting Board makes it possible to squeeze so much material into such a brief workshop where the registrants can expect to complete their projects.
The third workshop focuses on an array of needle-felting and beading embellishment techniques for fabric and clothing using wool, feathers, synthetic fibers and beads. The techniques will be applied to an already felted purse that becomes a cherished accessory as well as a sampler of all the new skills.
In addition to Mary Jo's spindles and yummy yarns, we'll have my books in the booth where I hope to do signings. Oh, and of course, the Turbo Felting Boards ($30.)