Sea Life – ‘Frolicking Beneath the Waves’ – 2025.09.12

The newest Fibre Art Network exhibit is called Sea Life.

The theme: “Our imagination of what Sea Life meant to us, either above or below the water line, let our imagination wander. Each piece incorporates a wet or needle felted aspect, which might be as small as a loonie or as big as the entire piece.”

There are 47 pieces in the exhibit. Each artwork is 8″ x 10″ mounted onto a black 9” x 12” mat board.

I’m looking forward to seeing this exhibit in person at the FAN conference next week.

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Here is my artwork – ‘Frolicking Beneath the Waves‘.

My artist statement: Seahorses dance among strands of seaweed in a colorful blend of motion, texture, and sea life.

It was inspired by this piece I made in 2020 – Three Little Seahorses. I really liked the colors I used in my 2020 piece, and was very pleased when my scrap bags yielded enough of the very same fabrics for the seahorses!

First I made my seahorses, fusing the fabrics to felt. Then I trimmed the felt very close to each seahorse. The background fabric was another scrap in the perfect colors! To satisfy the requirement for a felted aspect, I dry-felted curly wool roving to the background to represent seaweed. The final step was to attach the seahorses by quilting around the edges of each one.

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Thanks for stopping by.

I’m linking up with Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday, where you’ll find many other creative and inspirational projects.

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