Kim Buchheit

http://WildlyWoolly.com

As the owner and Creative Director of Buchheit Creative Services, Kim offers a full complement of design and marketing services to clients all over the country. From art direction and graphic design, to corporate identity and branding, she brings over twenty years of professional experience to every project.

Over the past few years she has developed and produced a line of fine art and fine craft items including felted sculptures, wearable art, and unique home decor items; many available online. Most recently Kim has created a collection of surface designs for use in apparel, home textiles, or gift and paper goods markets. This collection is ideal for interior designers, publishers, product developers, or retail customers looking for unique and/or custom fabric and repeat patterns.


Artist's statement:  I'm a designer and mixed-media artist living and working in Grand Canyon National Park. I love making items for gift and home that delight others and celebrate our natural world. The forest is my muse and the canyon is a constant inspiration. I am most happy when working with my hands and do so in gratitude.

As an artist, I am constantly developing new problems to solve in the studio. I love the creative process and allow my art to continually grow and change. This way of working is as organic as my chosen subject matter. While professionally I'd like to get more of my surface designs into the marketplace, I'll continue to explore in the studio with fiber and paint. Everything seems to inform everything else in a life, so the plan is to just keep loving, living and making!

Location:  Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

Online shops:

   kbuchheit  (etsy)

   Repeats So Sweet  (spoonflower)

Blogs:  

   WildlyWoolly
   RepeatsSoSweet
Languages spoken:  English

Felted Pods by Kim Buchheit  (Wildly Woolly)

Tags:  fiber art, wool, felted wool, fiber artist, kim buchheit, wildly woolly, textiles for the home, wool sculpture, handmade, felted bracelets, eco-friendly gifts

Waterrose Handcrafted Obsessions

http://waterrosez.blogspot.com/

I'm a textile artist who has a love of  hand embroidery. Not only do I love collecting vintage pieces of embroidery...I love creating new embroidery pieces that I hope will be passed down to other generations. I also enjoy doing research on embroidery and collecting the history of this beautiful handwork.

I initially began creating hand embroidered cuffs, but I have been exploring other artistic mediums utilizing embroidery. Recently I have delved into a 3-dimensional aspect and have been creating pieces based on inventions of the 1800s.

As I explore more of the history of embroidery I gather more ideas on things that I want to create...I have an entire notebook filled with these ideas!

Artist statement:  Enlightening a generation to embroidery by showing that it is a beautiful, valuable and personal art form.

Location:  Arizona

Online shop:   Waterrose

Blog:  waterrosez
Social Media:
     about.me
     pinterest
     tumblr
     stumbleupon
     twitter

Languages spoken:  English

Embroidery, "Umbrella Man" by Waterrose Handcrafted Obsessions

Tags: hand_embroidery, embroidery_art, wrist_cuff, vintage, fabric, thread_art

Marble-T Design, LLC /// Linda Moran

 

http://www.marbledfab.com

Marble-T Design, LLC is a small partnership of husband-and-wife marbling team Dean and Linda Moran. Hubby Dean started marbling after a three-month search for supplies, just so Linda could have some new fabric for a quilt. 

They marble all kinds of fabrics, from cotton to silk, from linen to polyblends. They've been marbling for nearly 20 years and consider themselves good at what they do, but not nearly to the level of the Turkish masters of the art. Dean marbles and sells the fabric, while Linda gets to keep the really great stuff and quilts, making unusual fiber art that has been juried into shows around the country. Lately they have branched into designing new fabrics using marbled patterns as the basis, as well as creating Digital Marbling (TN).

Mission:  To study and learn the ancient art of marbling; to help others learn marbling by being free with help and advice, unlike the guilds of the Middle Ages; to continue to improve the creation of unique pieces of fiber art; to celebrate the planet with abstract representations of the earth.

Location:  Tucson, Arizona, USA

Online shops:

   Etsy
   Cafe Press
   Zazzle
   eBay

Blog:  Marbled Musings  
Other social media:
   Twitter
   LinkedIn 

Memberships:  

   Tucson Arts and Crafts Organization
   International Marblers Society
Languages spoken:  English

"Gaia 2: Beginnings", Art Quilt by Linda Moran

Quilted Marbled Satins

Tags: marbled fabrics, fiber art, digital marbling, art quilt, wall hangings, textiles, marbling, fabric marbling

Sherryl Buchler

http://www.sherrylbuchler.com

I am a fiber artist who loves to experiment with color and texture.

I have always been interested in color for as long as I can remember. I made funky clothes for my Barbie dolls and put together outrageous combinations for myself. I have a masters degree in Color Perception and was an interior designer for almost 20 years. About 5 years ago I discovered quilting but I hated the traditional patterns and the restrictions. Enter art quilts and my creative juices started flowing again. I love discovering all the techniques you can use for surface design but my love is still working with fabric... lots and lots of colored fabric. I dye my own fabrics and have a small business but sometimes I have trouble parting with the fabrics. I also do Shibori and other surface techniques.   

Location: Scottsdale, Arizona 
Online Store:  
    I sell hand dyed fabrics at Field of Color
Blogs:  SKB2000, Field of Color
Memberships: 
   Studio Art Quilters Association, Surface Design Association
Languages spoken:  English and Hebrew

Through Rose Colored Glasses by Sherryl Buchler

17 1/2" X 20 1/2"

Tags:  Art Quilting, fiber artist, hand dyed fabrics, bright colors, Shibori, Surface design, abstract, textile art