Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio

I Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving Kids Perhaps controversially.

"I think it’s a pointless exercise that needlessly derails a simple truth that should horrify all of us: the Israeli military is literally shooting and killing starving people while they attempt to get food."

I’m about 2 hours away. Birds are a main theme of my work.

A wooden bench with hooked fiber art upholstered to the sides and top. The fiber art depicts a sperm whale swimming through blue waves, with air bubbles rising above. The fiber art is wool on linen, using rug hooking and quillie techniques.

I made this textile last year for my sister. Her partner just finished the bench and upholstery work. It is great to see it all together!

#fiberart #functionalart

Happy World Migratory Bird Day to all who celebrate!

#worldmigratorybirdday #fiberart

A piece of white wool fabric with a variety of fuchsia and shiraz painting swatches showing different values. Also shown are two Inktense pencils and three brushes — a scrubber, a water brush and an angled brush.

Experimenting with painting wool fabric using Inktense for application in an upcoming project. Need to refine a bit, but I think this will give me what I’m going for.

#inktense #paintingwool

A wall with three quilt/fiber art pieces by Sue Reno, from her exhibit at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. The work was inspired by the Susquehanna River.

A wall with a quilt/fiber art piece by Sue Reno, from her exhibit at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. The work was inspired by the Susquehanna River.

A quilt/fiber art piece by Sue Reno, from her exhibit at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. All pieces were inspired by the Susquehanna River.

A close-up of a panel in a quilt/fiber art piece by Sue Reno, from her exhibit at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. The work was inspired by the Susquehanna River.

Artist date to the Phillips Museum of Art at F&M to see Sue Reno’s beautiful work inspired by the Susquehanna River. It was great to take in all of the detail in her techniques, design and materials. The current exhibits are there through Apr. 24.

#fiberartistdate #fiberartinspiration

Photo shows the covers of 2 books, Eyes Open to the World by Karen Miller under the book Unravelling Women’s Art by P. L. Henderson. Both books have bookmarks poking out of the top. The book on top, Unravelling Women’s Art, shows a female head and shoulders (no clothes). The woman’s head is wrapped in white string with some hair and facial features showing through. In front of her mouth is a large mess of thread so you can’t see her mouth at all. The image is by Alia Ali.

I’m a self-taught artist and books are part of my “curriculum”. I’m away from my studio for a few days, but I’m making good use of my time in a family lounge at Penn with these books plus my journal.

#selftaughtartist #womensworkart #fiberartist

Textile artwork stretched on stretcher bars. The image is of a beaded teapot and teacup and saucer sitting on a chequered woven picnic cloth or tablecloth. There are picked dandelions, made from elaborate multi fibre pompoms, laying on the tablecloth to the left the teacup and saucer. Stumpwork embroidery was used to create sepals and stems for the dandelions. Pompom dandelions go up the left side of the piece, into a field of dandelions. The field is a yellow and green transitional spot dye. In other words, a variegated green and gold that goes from intense colour in the foreground by the woven tablecloth, to paler colours back by the treeline. There are over 200 embroidered French knot dandelions in the field. The trees are a grey green and lead to a cerulean blue sky, light at the bottom and darker at the top. Floating in the sky, embroidered on a piece of wool flannel is the Latin name for dandelions “Taraxacum officinale”. Flitting about the tea scene and dandelions are five needle felted honeybees with wings made of heat bondable Angelina (tm). Hanging below the piece is a fringe made from groups of four wool yarns of pale blue and pale yellow, alternating with groups of cobalt blue and pale yellow. The fringe is made by overhand knots at the top. The pale yellow yarn was dyed with dandelion petals. “Dandelions” was created using wool, cotton, metallic, nylon, and Angeline (tm) fibres on linen backing. The entire piece is labeled and lined on the back. The lining is a piece of dandelion dyed cotton. This piece measures 22 inches wide by 14 inches high, minus the fringe (which is about 4 inches long).

Finally finished! “Dandelions”. Mixed media and techniques. 22” x 14” (minus the fringe).

If you're looking for details for your calls, House Dems produced this tool where you can how many people in your district are at risk of losing jobs, health care, and food on the table from the House GOP budget.

"For the sake of the X people in CA-54 who will lose their Medicaid, please vote no."

Thanks Jean! It was a quick, fun project.

Rectangular fiber art of a hand-woven background fabric in green, red-violet, and yellow-orange variegated wool yarn with hooked and embroidered motif of two linden tree seed pods in off white colors. The border is chain-stitched in the same yarn as the weaving. The dried seed pods are laying beside the fiber art.

Whimsical linden tree seed pods depicted in multimedia fiber art — pin loom weaving, hooking, embroidery.

#fiberart #pinloomweaving #rughooking #art

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

A piece of fiber art in a square shape. The color palette includes red-orange, blues, white, light yellow, yellow green, brown, and bright coral. The fibers are fabric, yarn and roving in wool, cotton, silk and nylon. Techniques used are hooking, embroidery and needle felting.

A piece of fiber art in a square shape, next to a quilting ruler showing the size is 2” x 2”. The color palette includes red-orange, blues, white, light yellow, yellow green, brown, and bright coral. The fibers are fabric, yarn and roving in wool, cotton, silk and nylon. Techniques used are hooking, embroidery and needle felting.

Just spent a fun afternoon making mini fiber art in @lizbessel.bsky.social class through In The Studio Online.

#miniart #fiberart #loveoflearning

Congratulations on your finish!

Amazing!

There is just so much to take in here!

Thanks Jean! It was definitely outside my wheelhouse!

A small pottery bowl with blue and purple glaze sitting on a table

My first piece of pottery! Went to date night at Lititz Clay Studio last month — highly recommend. It was a lot of fun! And harder than it looks 😂

Opinion | Tenderness as an Act of Resistance (Gift Article) They are trying to overwhelm us and force us to look away. But we must not.

It’s only been three weeks, but already I am exhausted by my own fury. I emailed Kate DiCamillo and asked for help. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

I’ve been doing a weekly nature observation watercolor. Started the first week of winter.

These are really nice examples of nature journaling! How often do you get out to journal?

I hook with both strips and yarn, but more with strips. Yarn is often just for specific details or for a different texture. I like your color palette on this piece.

Close up photo showing the edge of a piece of hooked art. There is a row of chain stitch in a green blue tonal yarn between the green and light peach hooked loops of the work and the taupe binding tape stitched to the back of the work.

I tried Rachelle LeBlanc’s gallery finish on this piece and I’m very happy with how this turned out. The tonal wool yarn was perfect for the row of chain stitch between the loops and binding. Visit the shop on her website for a video tutorial on this finish.

#fiberart #finishingtechnique

I Care Deeply About... How to Take Back Our Power

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With thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for inspiration.

Painting hanging on a wall at the Barnes Foundation — Paul Cezanne, Village at the Water’s Edge. It is a landscape showing a village, hills, sky and water in a palette that includes blue, terra-cotta, yellow and green.

A gallery wall of paintings at the Barnes Foundation showing 14 paintings plus various pieces of ironwork Dr. Barnes chose to hang with the art. The wall of paintings shows the symmetry in how he displayed the collection.

A corner shot of a room at the Barnes Foundation showing 8 paintings and the ironwork Dr. Barnes displayed with the paintings. Also shown are decorative furniture, pottery and a sampler textile he chose to show with these paintings.

Artist date yesterday at the Barnes Foundation. Philly has great museums and this is one of the best. I highly recommend it — and do the tour to learn not only about the collection but also Dr. Barnes’ interesting story.

#artistdate

Needle and thread, stitching the binding on the back of a piece of hooked fiber art

Snow on the winter remains of clematis, muhly grass and rudbeckia

Sewing and snowing here, with views on my work table and just outside my studio on this cold January Sunday in south central PA.

#hookedart #hookedfiberart #artwip

A kid on my bball team was having a rough time, so I sat down with him and listened and made him feel heard and took time to lift him up in a genuine way... and I am telling you, this is how you get through the next 4 years. Human by human.

Fiber art of a barn swallow flying above farm fields. Medium is hooked wool and silk.

I’m ready to start the finishing on this piece. Did you know that barn swallows eat almost exclusively on the wing?

I’m a fiber artist, but I dabble with other mediums. This year I’m keeping a nature observation visual journal as part of my creative practice. Winter week 3 is for winterberries.

Introducing Elizabeth Miller from Maine who is one of the nine artists in ‘Stories are Made Loop by Loop’ at its last venue the Schwenkfelder Library in Pennsburg, PA thru March 30.
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