Amanda Fiebing

I started my week by making some chunky mushrooms yesterday. I’m in the process of getting ready for spring craft shows and markets where I plan to show my felt work. And I like the idea of making my table look like a farm vendor’s table. Mushrooms and fresh produce and terrariums, a felt farm and garden if you will.
So, here we go:

mushrooms, 3.2010
Please visit my flickr for more photos of mushrooms and other fun things.

Tags: farm, Felt, Fremont Sunday Market, mushrooms, soft sculpture.

Winter seems to be here, I’m ill with a cold the first time this season. I had a great Valentine’s day though, with friends and family and of course Henry. I spent this morning making another terrarium. I’m so infatuated with creating these small environments. I drew inspiration from a mushroom (center) I found on a hike in San Francisco. I’m considering a much larger mushroom that will have the same type of gills for another soft sculpture. That would be a lot of gills I’m thinking.
Anyway, here is today’s:

mushroom terrarium, amethyst, 2010
etsy

Tags: Art, etsy, Felt, mushrooms, san francisco, terrarium, wool.

After all this rain its hard not to think about mushrooms creeping up in random places. For instance, I wonder how many and what kind of mushrooms are currently fungifying the underpass across from my apartment near I-5? I probably don’t want to know. Anyway, in addition to rugs the world of felted mushrooms and terrariums in particular has been opening up to me. For this I did a little wet felting, which wasn’t necessary. And I used a vase I had laying around. Here’s my little contribution:

Terrarium, 2010

loose rocks, 2010

Etsy
Flickr
thanks Henry

Tags: etsy, Felt, mushrooms, needle felting, terrarium, wool.

The past couple weeks included some commissioned work. The project came to me through word of mouth which was really inspiring. Ok so it was one of Henry’s coworkers, 2 degrees is still 2 degrees of separation, right!? This commission was for a grouping of mushrooms to put in a basket as if they were freshly foraged (and cleaned). With the request for two specific kinds, Botelus Edulis and Agaricus, I made this bunch of fungi:

See larger photos here.

***I’m happy to report that even after spending hours making mushrooms from felt their edible form isn’t any more appealing to me.

Tags: agaricu arvensis, Art, botelus edulis, custom, fake food, Felt, handmade, mushrooms, needle felting, soft sculpture, wool.