Heart to Hand - on now! : )

It's up!  Today is the day.  What a trip it's been preparing for this.  I am pretty proud of it!  It was a lot of work and a lot of new territory.  It's all hot off the tails of my 2013 pieces: Emerging, Rebirth, and this year's award winner: Where Sunlight Falls.  It feels like I'm breaking personal ground using a feature spot to present new work.  I think it's all good though - so far the feedback has been marvelous.   I will never stop threadpainting, but I'm crossing my fingers that people will love them enough to give them new homes like they have with my work in the past.

Featured Artist until the end of August 2014 - 'Heart to Hand'  Glimpses of Prairie Stitched with Love

Heart to Hand is just that.  It's stitches of things dear to me.  It features large stitching of tiny parts of the prairie.  It's a little different from the fine threadpaintings of broad vistas that I usually do.  They are all framed and matted without glass thanks to the expertise of Cindy Moleski and Donna Harding - my fabulous framing team.  Heart to Hand is also the way I measure the yarns that I stitch with.  Here is a look at some of the work available.

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And now.  Now I have a break to rejuvenate, plant seeds for the future, reflect on the accomplishments of the past.  I'll work on my studio, play with my family, make a little more art to keep the show well stocked.  Thank you so much to the folks at Handmade House for supporting my work like this.  It's a real honour.

detail of Underfoot

Handmade House is open 7 days a week at 710 Broadway Ave in Saskatoon - just a block down from the SK Craft Council where my postcards are.  Their website is here.  Enjoy the show!  : )

Friday Finishes - Gathering

Good morning.  I have new work to show you.  I'm not sure what it's called.  Yarn paintings?  I spent much of May stitching coloured yarns with a giant needle for the 'Heart to Hand' show at Handmade House next month.

The subtitle of the show is 'glimpses of prairie'.  I will still have some prairie vista threadpaintings, but I am excited to display my new work as well.  It's kind of embroidery... looks a little like felting and works like an oil painting with each stitch looking like a brushstroke loaded with colour.

Gathering in progress

This is a big piece in the style of Where Sunlight Falls (in Edmonton) and will be framed BIG liek that - 12x22".  To put a huge horizontal image on my blog will always look teenytiny, but here it is nonetheless.  I finished it up yesterday morning. 

All I can say is that I want to do more like this!  It's big - the work is 14 inches across.  Next I think I'll try something with a sky.  Chunky yarns might look terrific as clouds and such.  I'll have to go shopping first.  I really don't own a lot of blue.

Have a great day!