"Shades of Spring" accepted into the HGA Convergence Fashion Show 2024

The juried fashion show with the theme "Sunflowers to Sunsets" was in Wichita Kansas at the Century II Performing Arts and Conference Center July 11.

My piece "Shades of Spring" is wet felted, includes Merino wool roving, and batting, silk fabric and studio-dyed silk organza, dyed silk roving. Sleeves are nuno felted Habotai silk. Closure is a magnetic snap and vintage button.

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Selected for Cochenille Users of Note

I was honored to be chose by Susan Lazear as a "User of Note" for her Garment Designer software. Here is the link to the page:

 https://cochenilleusersofnote.blogspot.com/

I decided to keep this coat. 

Honored to receive the award for Grand Champion at the Mountain and Valley Wool Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico - October 2024

My Grand Champion coat made from needle felted then wet felted alpaca and merino for the top and merino batting with Jacob fleece needle felted then wet felted on the bottom. The coat is available at: 

https://artemisiataos.com/collections/anne-vickrey-evans-1

along with other pieces. 

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2019 in Review

I tried some new adventures in felt making and sewing in 2019. Here are a few examples!

1. I was approached by Mary B. to make a jacket from a heavy piece of felt that her neighbor gave her. It was made in a class 30 years ago at a craft center and the teacher was Laine Goldsmith. Laine is one of the first felt teachers here in the USA. The piece was more of a wall hanging material and the wool was coarse not exactly for clothing. There was a different design on the fron and the back. I took the challenge and met with Mary deciding on the design for the jacket and I chose a pattern. I decreased the pattern form an extra small to an extra extra small since she is a size Two. I lined the jacket with some hand dyed silk I had and used felted prefelt for the sleeves and trim. Here is the result:

2. I wouldn't have been able to make Mary's coat if I hadn't spent several months working on the coat below. The body is needle felted BFL and Gotland cross (from Judy Colvin in Montana). I needle felted angora goat locks into it and then laid it on my rolling mat and placed a layer of white merino wool on top, then wet felted it. The sleeves are silk and wool felted then dyed charcoal. This coat was also lined and the buttons are raku from a local Taos artist. The edging is leather. Sherry pictured, purchased it at the Form and Fiber show in Santa Fe in August. She is modelling it in front of my booth at the Fall Fiber Fiesta in Santa Fe.

3. I attended a retreat in August in Cimarron NM with Susan Lazear (www.cochenille.com) to learn more about the garment designer software program. After purchasing the software in 2010 I finally feel confident using it. I designed a coat and made up the coat in alpaca and merino wool. I dislike making pockets and Susan suggested making detachable pockets. Below is the coat modelled by Cathy M. at my booth at the Taos Wool Festival. The collar edging is Elk hide.

4. I had several men ask if I made men's jackets at the Taos Wool Festival in October and I told them to come back next year because I am working on it. I used my Garment designer software and printed out mens patterns in sizes: 38 (which I found out is too small) 40 and 42. I started a jacket for Don (my husband) and then finished two in sizes 38 and 40. I brought the 38 and 40 to our guild meeting and the husband of our previous president tried it on and it fit great.
Below are pictured Virginia and Mike wearing the jacket at the Fall Fiber Fiesta in Santa Fe. It is grey alpaca and green merino wool inside. The sleeves are grey alpaca that I dyed with black walnut that I have had a long time so the color is more of a buckskin.

New "Spring" Work for the "La Moda IV Fashion Show" this Friday March 22, 2019 at noon in the Eloise Restaurant at the Drury Plaze Hotel in Santa Fe.

This coat is felt made with 8 mm Habotai silk and merino wool. It is dip dyed using wash fast dyes - Golden Pear and Lilac. The buttons are clay and placed above magnetic snaps.



I call this a French Vanilla Coat because that is the name of the dye I use to dye the pinkish color you can see on the sleeves and other places on the coat.

La Moda III Fashion Show December 14 in Santa Fe New Mexico

Alpaca and merino jacket with
leather embellishment and vintage
buttons. SOLD

Hand made felt jacket with burn out velvet
felted in. SOLD

Black locks jacket with silk lap
 and merino wool sleeves. SOLD





Silk lap and merino wool
studio dyed



Needle felted fleece
studio dyed. SOLD




"Mountain Snow" silver
fabrics felted with merino
wool, beading.



Raw silk and merino coat. SOLD

It was fun to see my garments on models at the La Moda III Fashion Show in Santa Fe.