Judith Colvin Designs

For a number of years life has been way to hectic to blog but I am hopeful that the coming year will allow more time for creating and sharing. I have been playing with natural fibers for about 30 years. I raised various fiber animals over that period of time. We started with a very large flock of Angora goats back in the 80’s and eventually downsized to a flock of Shetland sheep, which were joined by Bluefaced Leicesters and finally BFL/Gotland crosses.

I tried spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing and finally found my passion in felting. Back in the day, the only way to learn new techniques was to travel to another state to attend a conference or take a class and I was very fortunate to be able to pursue my passion in this way. Today with the availability of on-line classes with talented teachers there is no limit to new techniques to learn.

My latest class was with Fiona Duthie (“Ink on Cloth”). I have taken a number of classes from Fiona and they have always been a great way to take a new direction with fibers. Life definitely got in the way of participating in the class but I have finally have a bit of time to go through the materials and do a little playing and this is a photo of one of the hats I made using silk that I hand dyed grey and then embellished with Sumi ink.