Cyber Fyber exhibition

Today is the opening of the Cyber Fyber exhibition in the Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia, SC, United States. Cyber Fyber is an exhibition of international fiber art focusing on the supportive, global Internet connected community of textile artists. The exhibition will include 250 + fiber postcards and 160 + fiber ATC, and includes one of my ATCs as well as one of my fiber postcards. You can also see the exhibitions online. This is for the ATCs (mine is no. 123) and here is the site for the postcards (mine is no. 95 and see above for a picture too). The whole thing is organized by textile artist Susan Lenz and you can read about how I made both the ATC and postcard on this previous blog post .

Just wish I could visit in person but the online show is also wonderful to see and I recognize so many names!

Cyber Fyber Exhibition

I first heard about this on Lenna's blog and as I simply love my connections online to host this blog and swap ATCs, Fabric Postcards, Inchies etc. (as you may have noticed!!) I just had to participate. I simply can't imagine my life without my supportive internet friends. Cyber Fyber is the brainchild of fiber artist Susan Lenz who must have spend ages making a huge amount of fabric ATCs and postcards which she will swap with participating artists. The swapped cards will then become part of an international fiber art exhibition in January 2009 at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. The exhibition will focus on the supportive, contemporary approaches to textiles, and finished work by Internet websites and blogs. How fun is that! You can read all about it on the website she has set up specially for this: Cyber Fyber Exhibition.

I made an ATC specially for this. For the background I used some hand-made felt I have been hoarding ever since I made it in December last year. I don't often make felt by hand (too much like hard work!) but whenever I do I love the finished product. Onto this I added the house image and girl, which are both from Artchix. They were originally on paper but I printed them out on a fabric sheet (with Artchix permission, of course!). I added blue beading and a sparkling heart at the top. The text: Promise to kiss me, is also from Artchix. The ATC was finished by sewing the whole card onto a watercolour card with red machine zig zag stitch.

I also decided to swap one of my very favourite fabric postcards: So the Days dragged, which I made back in June of last year. It has the background described in earlier blogs, where I couch a large variety of knitting yarns onto a fabric background which is fused onto Fast2Fuse. Onto this I stitched one of my favourite Alphastamps images from the Pre-Raphaelite Women sheet which in the background actually shows some embroidery. This is how I started my exciting fiber life so was really suitable. This is surrounded by a lovely sparkling trim which I think I bought in The Netherlands when visiting my mother. The edge is finished with gold zigzag. It's always hard for me to let my art go but this seemed the right place for it. And of course I will receive one of Susan's gorgeous art pieces in exchange!