2011 FIBER ARTS TOUR WEEKEND August 5, 6, 7, 2011 46 Fiber Destinations; Studios, Galleries, Mills, Shops, and Farms
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2011 FIBER ARTS TOUR WEEKEND August 5, 6, 7, 2011 46 fiber destinations; studios, galleries, mills, shops, and farms open to the public 10 to 5 for tours and demonstrations www.mainefiberarts.org 2011 Fiber Arts Tour Weekend Participants Hilltop Handspun—16 Midsummer Night’s Meadow Handspun, Hand Dyed Yarns Farm—24 Artist Studios Lucy Rogers • 16 Lucy Lane • Lovell, ME 04051 Felt, Rugs, Fiber, Sheep, Sheepskins 207-928-2000 Susan Watson • 67 McComb Road • Garland, ME 04939 Art, Mind & Soul Studio—1 [email protected] 207-924-3756 Dimensional Crochet and Found Objects www.hilltophandspun.com [email protected] Priscilla Nicholson • 14 Maine Street, Fort Andross • Brunswick, ME Oxford County www.mainehighlandfarmers.com 04011 Four miles north of The Center Lovell Market on Route-5. Penobscot County 207-449-9172 Turn left up 700-foot driveway. Left at the fork. Turn off Route-94 in Garland onto Greeley Road. Travel 1.3 [email protected] Dyeing yarn and fiber in kitchen. Spinning on a spinning wheel. miles up gravel road, then turn left on McComb Road, 0.3 Cumberland County Hand dyeing, handspinning, plant dyeing with garden and wild- mile to Farm. At Fort Andross Mill, enter at tower marked “Cabot Mill flowers, knitting, designing patterns for original yarns. Hand dyed Visit my new fiber studio and find hand-dyed, farm-raised fibers. Antiques.” Walk down stairs, take hallway until it “T’s” into yarn, roving and knitting kits for sale. Demonstrations of needle felting. Sheep management talk. I longer hallway. Turn left. Second door on left. maintain a flock of Corriedale and Merino sheep at my farm. I shear Working studio. Works in progress and completed on view created and dye fleeces for yarn, blankets and felting. using crochet, felting, free embroidery and needlework techniques. Ibis Arts—17 Demonstration of crochet with wire, fishing line and other crazy Colorful Textiles for the Home materials. Patricia Kamlin • 1011 River Road (Route 131) • St. George, ME 04860 Mills, Susan, Studio—26 207-372-8055 Art, Felted, Mixed Media, Classes [email protected] Susan Mills • 736 Millay Road • Bowdoin, ME 04287 Artistic Endeavors—2 www.ibisarts.com 207-666-3029 Japanese Indigo Shibori Dye Work Knox County [email protected] Kathleen Goddu • 9 Main Street • Bowdoinham, ME 04008 Located on Route-131, 4.5 miles south of Route-1 from www.susanmills.net 207-721-3141 Thomaston, or five miles north of Tenants Harbor, or 0.75 Sagadahoc County [email protected] mile north of Route-73 from Rockland. Take I-295 to Bowdoin/Bowdoinham Exit 37. Follow signs Sagadahoc County View artist studio. Completed work on display for sale in showroom. to Route-125-West. Right onto Route-201. Travel 2.5 miles. I-295-North to Exit 37. Right off ramp to center of town. Artist available to describe process and techniques. Creating colorful Right onto Millay Road to #736. Studio straight ahead, down by the waterfront on left. handcrafted textiles, custom-dyed fabrics, decorative pillows, and Handmade felting demonstrations. Art making to include mixed Route-24-North, right at light, center of town. painted canvas mats for table and floor. Classes available. Commis- media, fiber arts and photography. Raising of Llamas, organic Demonstration of different techniques. sions welcome. gardening all in a zen-like setting. Christina Knits—9 Ito, Emi, Studio—19 Morris Studio—27 Handmade Paper, Spinning/ Knitting Studio Weaving Studio, Handspun Handwoven Textiles Paintings, Books, Stitched Painted Collage Christine Macchi • Ames Mill, 307 Front Street, second floor • Emi Ito • At Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main Street • Topsham, ME 04086 Arlene Morris • 13 Main Street (upstairs) • Topsham, ME 04086 Richmond, ME 04357 207-956-8464 207-751-9208 207-449-8573 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sagadahoc County www.arlenemorris.com Sagadahoc County I-295 to Exit 31, Topsham. Travel Route-196-East through Sagadahoc County I-295 to Exit 43/Richmond. Route-197-East 3.7 miles. Right stoplights to four-way intersection. Right on Route-201- I-295 to Exit 31, Topsham. Travel Route-196-East through at river onto Route-24-South. First building on left is the South, one mile on the left. stoplights to four-way intersection. Right on Route-201- Southard (Ames) Mill, second floor. Saori loom weaving demonstration and handwoven textiles for sale. South, one mile on left. Exhibit/sale of handmade paper sculpture and spirit papers. Working artist studio with paintings, works on handmade paper, Spinning wheels, knitwear and handmade paper on display in this artist’s books, paper assemblages, drawings and more. beautiful studio overlooking Swan Island. True fiber studio with Kick the Moon Farm & Studio—20 fabric, spinning wheels and fleeces. Also, handmade paper, travel Working Fiber Studio journals, and large sculptural work by Richard Lee. Last days to Julie Yarbrough • 969 Pequawket Trail • West Baldwin, ME 04091 Osprey Cove Studio—29 come see—studio moving soon. 207-625-8415 Altered Cloth. Dyed, Printed Silk [email protected] Katherine Harman Harding • 16 Osprey Cove Road • Freeport, ME www.kickthemoonfarm.com 04032 Cobey, Katharine, Studio—10 York County 207-865-6557 Gallery and Working Studio On Route-113 in West Baldwin Village across from cemetery. [email protected] Katharine Cobey • 178 Salt Pond Road • Cushing, ME 04563 Ongoing demonstrations in felting, needle felting, silk painting and more. www.ospreycovestudio.com 207-354-6762 Cumberland County [email protected] From Route-1, take Bow Street (at L.L. Bean). Follow Bow www.KatharineCobey.com Langley, Diane, Gallery—21 Street, which becomes Flying Point Road, for 3.6 miles. Left Knox County Hooked Rugs, Paintings, Story Cloth on Osprey Cove Road. Second building on right. From Route-1 Thomaston, take Wadsworth Street south Diane Langley • 309 Main Road • Westport Island, ME 04578 I will be altering cloth by dyeing or printing or painting—probably 6.5 miles to Fales Store. Bear left after Fales Store onto 207-882-7926 all three. A painter, printmaker, and fiber artist, Katherine teaches Pleasant Point Road. Travel 2.3 miles to right on Salt Pond [email protected] workshops in her studio under the auspices of Maine College of Art Road. Travel 0.9 mile to first cluster of red buildings on left. Lincoln County Continuing Studies. www.meca.edu/cs “Fiberworks” sign. From Route-1, take Route-144-South onto the island. Spinning demonstrations on a Navajo spindle and Rio Grande Located 1.5 miles from the end of the bridge on the right. wheel. Gallery exhibition of sculptural and wearable pieces from Look for signs. recently-published book, DIAGONAL KNITTING, A DIFFERENT Rug hooking and story cloth demonstrations offered by third- SLANT. I spin or make my own yarns for one-of-a-kind clothing or generation rug hooker and teacher, with some of her students. sculpture. I teach occasional solo or group classes. Refreshments and work on display. Call for current class schedule. Gallery exhibits, original designed rugs, paintings and story cloth. Studio for workshops and classes, either individual or group. 2011 Fiber Arts Tour Weekend Participants — page 2 Rose Whitehead Fiber Timberdoodle 2—40 Fabrications—31 Handspun, Handknit, Rare Breeds, Lace Off Grid Home/ Fiber Studio Kathryn Woodcock-Lynn • 112 Hathorne Point Road • Cushing, ME Educational Rose Whitehead • 258 East Waldo Road • Waldo, ME 04915 04563 207-322-3654 207-354-6377 [email protected] Centers [email protected] www.rosewhitehead-fiber.com Knox County From Route-1/Thomaston, take Wadsworth Street at Prison Center for Maine Craft—8 Waldo County Fine Maine Craft, Wearables, Jewelry Exit Route-1 for Downtown Belfast. Stay on street until Showroom. Travel 6.2 miles to Fales Store in Cushing. Left on Pleasant Point Road, 1.5 miles, left on Hathorne Point Road. Sadie Bliss • West Gardiner Turnpike Service Plaza, Route 126 • West past Head of Tide Road on left. Road you’re on turns right. Gardiner, ME 04345 East Waldo Road is straight ahead. Driveway is across from Studio is 0.5 mile on left. Learn the rhyme for the “niddy-noddy.” Try carding with hand 207-588-0021 Holmes Lane. [email protected] Artist in studio could be sewing on her treadle sewing machine, cards. Find out the “true” meaning of virgin wool. Spinning and plying demonstrations. Activities include washing fleeces, dyeing, www.mainecrafts.org showing the process of wet felting a small flat piece, winding a Kennebec County warp on a warping mill, or spinning her bunny’s fur. Make your carding and blending rolags. Spinning, plying yarn to be measured and then wound into balls. Center is located on Route-126 in West Gardiner at the request. Dyeing, spinning, weaving, felting, sewing, embroidery, Turnpike Service Plaza. From Maine Turnpike 95, Exit 102 growing and wildcrafting dye plants. northbound; Exit 103 southbound. From I-295, Exit 51. Walker Fiber Arts Studio—42 The Center for Maine Craft is a retail store and gallery featuring fine Searsport Rug Hooking—34 Fiber Art Studio and Gallery craft made by the hands of hundreds of Maine craft artists. Anne Walker • 2176 Main Street, PO Box 496 • Rangeley, ME 04970 Complete Rug Hooking Supply Studio 207-864-2972 Julie Mattison • 11 West Side Drive • Verona Island, ME 04416 Maine Fiberarts—22 207-249-0891 [email protected] Franklin County Fiber Arts Gallery/Networking Center [email protected] Christine Macchi • 13 Main Street • Topsham, ME 04086 www.searsportrughooking.com From Farmington, take Route-4 north to Rangeley. Studio is on Route-4 (Main Street), just past scenic overlook on the left. 207-721-0678 Waldo County [email protected] Traveling Route-1/ME-3 from Bucksport, cross onto Verona Works on display and in progress.