In April, we were thrilled to bring Leiko Uchiyama to The Thimble Classroom to share her unique felting technique, Pine Needle (or “Matsuba” in Japanses) Felt. The results were FABULOUS!A hearty “Thank You!” to Leiko for traveling over our way an…
Reflections
April 7th was the anniversary of an AMAZING 6 years in business for The Little Thimble That Could. We celebrated with our yearly tradition (since we moved to High Hand) of a Student Art Show and Reception. It has been such a blessing to hav…
Lisa’s Adventures with Irit Dulman and Vilte
Hello,This time it is Lisa writing to you.In January, I went to my first out of town workshop all by myself. I loaded my jeep with all my felting and dyeing supplies and set off to the Monterey Peninsula. The workshop was with I…
Old World, New Age Felting with Marilou Moschetti
Hello long lost blog friends!!I wanted to share some photos from the fantastic workshop that we had with Marilou Moschetti back in March. I apologize for the delay in sharing – time to blog continues to elude me but I’m hopeful that with Hannah g…
Melissa Arnold and Embellishment Machines.
We are thrilled to have Melissa Arnold returning to The Tin Thimble Classroom to teach “The Embellishment Machine Unplugged” in February. Here in the shop I must admit we’ve all been a bit skeptical of embellishment or felting machines – go …
Felted Fashion Show 2012
We are thrilled to be hosting our first Felted Fashion Show! Mom, Lisa, Carin and a number of our students will be struttin’ their felted garments down the catwalk. The fashion show will be part of High Hand Gallery’s Awards Night for the A…
Artstock 2012
The High Hand Gallery has put on another wonderful Artstock this year and I am THRILLED to see all of the felted artwork in the show!Wet Felted Eggplant by Sharon MansfieldI wish I had a piece in the show so I had a chance of winning one of these …
Way back in May
we happened to host our Second Annual Felt Fest and what fun we had! The first Felt Fest we hosted was in March of 2011 and it was just way too cold in the sheds to do it during that time of year again so this year we put it in May and the weathe…
Whoooeeeeee.
am I beeeehhhiiiinnnnndddd on updates, or what?? I mentioned that mom and Lisa were both putting pieces in the Focus on Fiber show at The Sacramento Fine Arts Center but I never shared the news! These are the pieces that they entered:And I …
Focus on Fiber
I just wanted to share that mom and Lisa have six felted pieces in this show! The reception is this Saturday evening from 5:30-8:30 and we’d love to see you there!! I’ll make sure to take photos at the reception!