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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
Patti Barker
| "Growing up observing my father's wood-working skills and learning to sew from my seamstress mother, I came by my crafting abilities naturally. They instilled a love of texture and the value of something being hand-made and functional. I'm grateful to have the ability to follow my passion as a full-time American fiber artist. Exploring the abilities of various fibers and learning new techniques are my passions. As a result, I use a wide range of techniques in one-of-a-kind designs; including hand-dying, handspun art yarn, nuno felt, surface design, needle felting, beading, embroidery and sewing. Drawn to natural fibers, I enjoy rich texture and multi-dimensional pieces with vibrant color combinations." See some of Patti's work |
Susan Rosenberg
 | "My knitting addiction began first with the yarns themselves, the more brightly colored the better, and grew from there. I did not come from a family of knitters, nor were any of my friends or co-workers knitters, so in the absence of any knitting role models, I at first indulged my yen for yarn (and yarn stash-building) mostly with needlework projects. Since for most of my career my job entailed a lot of business traveling, I had plenty of airport and airplane hours that needed filling, and needlework was the perfect solution--easily transportable, esthetically satisfying, but not too demanding attention-wise. I ended up with a sizable inventory of pillows from this period, as did my family who were happy to share the bounty." See some of Susan's Work |
Nancy Lind
| A resident of San Juan Island, Nancy designs and crafts original jewelry from stone, glass, fiber, pearls and other natural materials in her LINDesign Studio on San Juan Island. In addition to jewelry, she does fine art photography, modifying her original digital photographs with software to produce images evocative of pastels, watercolors, batik and other treatments. Collecting wonderful beads from around the world, discovering the distinctive jewels of handmade lampworked beads by local artists (wherever the locale), playing with pattern and color even when joining a single strand of beads, sometimes using off-loom weaving techniques or wirework; all are part of the creative play of producing unique necklaces and earrings. See some of Nancy's work |
Margaret Thorson
| "I learned to weave at the University of Washington 40 some years ago. I took a degree in General Art and it was the looms that fascinated me the most. After moving to Waldron island in the 70's and needing to figure out to make an income from such an isolated place I started weaving seriously to sell. My fiber arts products are an addition to the main income from our farm of organic vegetables and I sell both at the Farmers Market in Friday Harbor. See some of Margaret's work |
