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The Cone Gnome Welcomes Maine Craft Weekend.

Celebrating Maine Craft Weekend? Well then, meet The Cone Gnome. They are entirely handmade, usually Maine-sourced wool fleece,  pinecones,  and other natural materials (feathers and acorns received from my Maine friends).  I hand knit the tiny hats after I’ve made their hand-felted faces. Some face and beard fleece is naturally-dyed with plants I have grownContinue reading “The Cone Gnome Welcomes Maine Craft Weekend.”

March-ing to August, or The Novel Coronavirus Cometh.

There are no adequate words. The last five months, aka The Twilight Zone, are more or less a soup of horror, shock, frenzy, rage, depression, sorrow, repeat, repeat, repeat. Somehow, in the parallel universe of my studio, the creative pace and output has been like no other time in my maker’s life. This is reallyContinue reading “March-ing to August, or The Novel Coronavirus Cometh.”