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Jaci Nicely/Woolybird Studio
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Telling nature stories through contemporary fiber art
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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
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.
May 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Happy World Migratory Bird Day to all who celebrate!

#worldmigratorybirdday #fiberart
May 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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 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.
April 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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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
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.
March 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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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
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.
March 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Whimsical linden tree seed pods depicted in multimedia fiber art — pin loom weaving, hooking, embroidery.

#fiberart #pinloomweaving #rughooking #art
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.
February 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Just spent a fun afternoon making mini fiber art in @lizbessel.bsky.social class through In The Studio Online.

#miniart #fiberart #loveoflearning
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.
February 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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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 😂
A small pottery bowl with blue and purple glaze sitting on a table
February 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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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
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.
January 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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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
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.
January 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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
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
January 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I’m ready to start the finishing on this piece. Did you know that barn swallows eat almost exclusively on the wing?
Fiber art of a barn swallow flying above farm fields. Medium is hooked wool and silk.
January 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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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.
January 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I can’t decide what I like best in this view from my walk this morning — the blue sky, the warm sunlight on the tree trunks or the features of the split rail fence exaggerated in the shadows on the path. No, it is definitely those shadows!
scene of a walking path lined with split rail fence and late fall trees, blue sky, and shadows of the fence on the path
November 21, 2024 at 12:13 AM