Amanda Fiebing

This set of felted mushrooms was a gift I was most proud of giving this past holiday season. Its interesting, I have never eaten a mushroom myself (well, maybe fragments here and there against my knowledge or will).  From first sight of the fungus I knew the meaning of repulsion as instinct. Their shape, their name, the idea of eating a ‘fungus’, the smell,  their smell when cooking; all things that put me off of mushrooms. Ew, yuck, patooey.

I must say, though, that this winter at the produce stand on Beacon Hill something changed when I was picking out some lemons. I saw a previously unseen beauty in these shriveled and sickly pale gilled fungi sitting next to the lush citrus fruits. Suddenly it clicked, the perfect gift for my mushroom-loving sister, Kathryn of KAM gear in Ballard, WA; felted mushrooms.

fly amanita & white button

black chantrelle & white button

black chantrelle & white button
Photos by Henry Rose

More are on the way for another commission. More photos to come.

Tags: Art, fake food, Felt, needle felting, sculpture, soft sculpture, wool