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The Fyber Cafe

We create beautiful art by exploring natural fibers of the animal kingdom, by felting, spinning, weaving, knitting, and dyeing. Dog hair is our specialty!

03/31/2024

Hi everyone - I haven’t been posting much lately because the spinning commissions have been flooding in and there was no time for luxuries. But recently while my electric carder was broken, I played with my handmade paper and other trinkets and treasures, and mounted them on painted canvas. The leaves are both real and some natural dyed on paper. The owl has rock nodule eyes, the head is all weathered cottonwood leaves, and the body is a random pile of twigs and paper strips. The African mask and tapestry came from an African Arts magazine and the rest is my handmade paper plus beads, ostrich feather from a used duster, black yarn and heaps of decoupage. Enjoy and thanks for being there!

02/24/2023

Hi all - sorry I haven’t writtten in awhile. Hope all are well and still fybering? A couple weeks ago I snuck my shelties into the annual Goldens in Golden gathering. I got to pet lots of Goldens - they are such a lovely sweet breed. I wore my sheltie hat and new Golden Retriever mittens and got a few compliments and some just had to touch the hat. So I wrote a little poem for fun:

Fuzzy Wuzzy made of hair
Spun and knit into a hat
Don’t you touch it - don’t you dare
For if you do you’ll pet the Pat.

So if you think instead you‘ll shake
Her hand to say your howdy then
And so your hands her mittens take
Fuzzy Wuzzy strikes again!

09/10/2022

Next up: 2 blankets to be woven with more than 7 pounds (3831 yards) of new husky/alpaca handspun yarn. It all spun like butter.

09/10/2022

I guess this post is going to anyone on Facebook that stumbles on it, though I meant it to go especially to my The Fyber Cafe subscribers. Anyway here are my most recent collages, made mostly with gifts from my local walking path and mounted on my handmade paper all on 11x14 inch painted canvas.

08/17/2022

What should I do with all this new handmade paper? Paper collages on glassware have caught my fancy. Here they are so far, made with my newest paper, fabric, beads, paper, plants, a fossil, turquoise and lots of glue. And there still are heaps of more paper for the next binge!

08/03/2022

This vegetable papyrus making is causing me to play with my food. Yet another journey back to my childhood. Here is the first green pepper from my garden. OMG!

07/29/2022

It’s been a wild journey using up my stash of hoarded papermaking supplies for a new supply of handmade paper. The paper contains pulps from white iris, green grass, red onion skins and choke cherry dye, black banana peels, abaca and cotton pulp, and torn up paper. Inclusions were supplied by my kitchen and bike path: flowers, seeds, coffee grounds and tea, probably bugs and dirt, and whatever landed in the vat overnight. It was great using up years’ worth of hoarded materials, but much remains for the next binge. One intriguing hoard is a boxful of paper wasp nests which needs a fresh look.

06/22/2022

Vegetable Papyrus: I have been buying vegetables from my local farmer’s market and pressing them into vegetable papyrus, then making collages by adding touches of flowers and leaves collected along walking trails around Golden. The papyrus includes red peppers, eggplant, yellow squash, zucchini, red onions, and carrots. All collages were pressed onto my handmade paper and then mounted on canvas or framed. I call them a Summer’s Bounty collection. Happy Summer Solstice!

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Cheyenne Street
Golden, CO

Telephone

+17204003420

Website

http://www.TheFyberCafe.com/

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