Wool Felted Bag

Bag front.

Back of bag.

Needle felted natural dyed wool fabrics and fibers.

Felt Continued

Now with some stitching, I have no specific plans for this piece other than for it to be bright and cheerful.

Felt

Evening project.

Downsizing and Shop Update

Been working in the studio today, going through supplies and have decided to downsize, I'll be listing more silk bundles, silk fiber packets, wool bundles, etc. tomorrow in the shop! The need to downsize has more with the need to focus and so long the extras are hanging out the desire to dye more fabric and fibers becomes diminished! 

Upcoming dye pots for this weekend include walnuts, curly dock, and indigo, and I can't wait.

Curly or sour dock, I have three beautiful stands in the yard right now, all parts are usable including the roots.

Experimenting

Experimenting with some charcoal and paint this afternoon, I tried this once before but wasn't thrilled with the results, the charcoal ended up as on big smear across the paper making the paint look dirty.  This time I used a harder charcoal pencil and the results were better. 

New Shop

I opened a new shop page on my website!  I have to admit I was slow to set up another shopping cart but after last weekends fiasco of not being able to get tech helpfor my BigCartel shop, tech help apparently is available ONLY during M-F and ONLY from 9-5 eastern time, I caved.

Natural Dyed Wool Bundles

Each bundle consists of 4 pieces of wool fabric 9x6 inches, all fabrics dyed using natural dyes. 

Muted Mauves and Blues

Jeweltones - Indigo, Cochineal, and Copper were used for these deep rich colors!

Indigo Blues ranging from a dark indigo blue to a medium value indigo!

All bundles are $18 each not including shipping, please email me for a PayPal invoice at prairiefibers@hotmail.com


Edited at 1:10 am central time: Sold!!!

En Plein Air Painting

I spent some time on the porch capturing the colors of the crabapple trees.

Newsletter

I decided to make my life simpler today and I started with my newsletter service.  If you signed up to recieve the old newsletter and would still like to recieve my newsletter please re-subscribe. 

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Prairie Seeds Fabric Packs

I'm listing some natural dyed silk fabrics, and hand painted silk fabrics in my shop, enjoy!

Fabric Stash

Been rummaging through my fabric stash for some bleeding heart colors.

WIP - Granary 040212

My goal is to finish this piece this week!

Flowering Crabapple

e-Book Spring Sale!!!

Spring into Natural Dyeing early this year!!! 

eBook Sale!!!

See website for details!
www.kbaxterpackwood.com/e-Books

WIP - Granary

Granary - digitally printed fabric, machine and hand stitching, aurfil threads.

I sure hope I spelled that correctly, this is part of my "ode to corn" series.  I will be stitching more of these in the coming days.

WIP - Corn Technique Sample

Working on my corn field techniques, more samples coming soon.

Mark Making with Nature eBook 24 Hour Sale

Mark Making with Nature eBook Package regular price $40.00 

NOW $25.00

Thank Heavens for Mondays...

I'm back sorta, I managed to ressurect my 12 year old computer so am now able to resume printing fabric, editing photos, and continue writing on the newest eBook. As to when my other computer will be fixed, well lets just say that at this point I've given up on my other computer I have a solo show I'm hanging at Mary Greeley Medical Center this coming Thursday and I want to focus on that task instead.

Ode to Corn No. 1
One of the new pieces I'm finishing for my upcoming solo show, natural dyed cotton and silk fabrics, machine stiched using Aurifil Cotton threads.

My eBooks are available still!!! In case you were wondering with all of my computer troubles yes the ebooks are definately still available!  The eBooks live on a seperate server, I knew several years back that this would one day be a very imporant thing to do. 

Whilest cleaning my wet studio I found two copies of the Mark Making with Nature DVD in my stash, this is your last chance to obtain a physical copy of the DVD before I digitize it and make it a digital download only! 

If your interested in a copy of the DVD please email me the price is $49.95 plus $4.95 shipping 

Computer Issues - STILL 022312

Well after spending 28+ hours installing the new platform, etc the computer crashed and refuses to be revived. Will know more this coming weekend, hubs is letting me use his computer but it doesn't have the bells and whistles that my machine has, unfortuantely.

What to do redux!

All ripped out!

I'm much happier now, I should have ripped everything out several months ago!!!