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Sievers Pop-Up Shop #2: The write stuff

July 28, 2020 By Carolyn Foss

This is the second in a series of pop-up shops featuring items made by the students and teachers of Sievers. Our “write stuff” shop focuses on cards, papers and books along with reading and writing tools. We’ll start with these paste paper cards which come in a pack of eight for $18.00. A special book to write special words and special writing tools can record special ideas. For handmade books, wrapping or card making, we have a variety of marbled papers. If a ready-made card is more your style, these woodland scenes are based on actual textile “painted” landscapes. When you just have to set down your writing or reading, these might come in handy. In book-related news, although book […]

Filed Under: Book Arts/Paper Arts, Sievers School, Sievers Shop

One or many

September 5, 2019 By Carolyn Foss

Maybe it was one coiled basket or maybe it was many marbled papers and fabrics that were completed in class during the last week of August, but whether it was one or many, it was a delight to see the student’s work progress through the three days of class. Most of Lynn Stracka Schuster’s Covered Coiling Basket students completed one special piece using unique yarns (some used handspun purchased at the Sievers Shop). From a small base, an expanding spiral forms into a one-of-a-kind basket. As Lynn says, “the basket will tell you where it wants to take you”. Lynn brought several examples of her own work illustrating various yarns used, shapes, choices for rims and embellishments. One by one, […]

Filed Under: Basketry/Furnishings, Book Arts/Paper Arts Tagged With: Coiled Basketry, Lynn Schuster, Marbling, Nancy Akerly

Small packages

June 18, 2019 By Carolyn Foss

Don’t you think some of the best things come in small packages? “Small packages” as in Japanese Temari and Cartonnage (box making) at Sievers this past week. In the Temari Techniques class, Judith Yamamoto and assistant, Kathy Broer, introduced the art to some students new to Temari and challenged others with more experience to work with complex patterns and to create tiny, jewelry-sized Temari. In Cartonnage: The Magic Box, students focused on the Karakuri Bako, a Japanese box which contains a hidden compartment. Using bookboard, Japanese papers and a good eye for accuracy, these special double-hinged boxes came together with the guidance of instructor, Nancy Akerly. (You can see more of Nancy’s own work at Liberty Grove Paper Arts.) These […]

Filed Under: Beading/Stitchery/Wearables, Book Arts/Paper Arts Tagged With: Cartonnage, Japanese Temari, Judith Yamamoto, Liberty Grove Paper Arts, Nancy Akerly

Unique, Tiny, Precious

September 3, 2018 By Carolyn Foss

These are just three of the words used in the descriptions for Mary Hettmansperger’s Expressions in Jewelry and Chad Alice Hagen’s Tiny Book Necklaces classes.   Add to that “creative”, “fun” and “fast-paced” and you have a lot of options for very personalized and special wearables. Starting with sheets of copper or brass and an assortment of found objects in Mary’s class, students then added layers, embossing, hinges and their own style to create a unique jewelry wardrobe.          Not every piece was made to wear as jewelry.  Some of these colorful metals may end up in other mixed-media art work. As Mary’s class description says, there are “endless options…”.  We loved seeing so many of them!       If you love books, you love them in all […]

Filed Under: Beading/Stitchery/Wearables, Book Arts/Paper Arts Tagged With: Chad Alice Hagen, Mary Hettmansperger, Metal Jewelry, Tiny Book Necklaces

Covers

July 23, 2018 By Carolyn Foss

You can’t judge a book by its cover, so they say.  But have they seen the books and covers made in the Miniature Wooden Books class with Daniel Essig?  Using mica for a cover, or wood that has been sanded, carved and painted with milk paint, these 2″ – 3″ tiny treasurers were then showcased by creating small special displays, some of them including 100 year-old cedar shingles from an Island house.           A visit from the quilt class gave a chance for the book-making students to share their pieces, cover-to-cover.       If you’re under the covers, you might be under a quilt, and who wouldn’t want to be under one of these special and vibrant ones?  In Ellen Graf’s Drafting in Quilt Design class, excellent technique is taught along with skills of […]

Filed Under: Book Arts/Paper Arts, Quilting, Sievers School Tagged With: Book Arts, Daniel Essig, Ellen Graf, Quilt Design, Quilting

Three classes and one message

June 22, 2018 By Carolyn Foss

We’ve had the joy of seeing all the students and their wonderful work in Marbling on Paper and Fabric with Nancy Akerly,  Beginning Weaving with Nancy Adams and Susan Johnson and Independent Study: Splint-Woven Basketry with Jeanette Biederman all within this past week! Looking back, it was 1999 when we last held a class in marbling.  After 19 years, new were so many detailed designs. The options of printing on paper (from plain to pages from books, sheet music, maps and more) or fabric gave great options for students.  This was the first time marbling has been held in the Walter Studio as 19 years ago, it was about a month away from being finished.  As you can imagine, we could share dozens of photos from each […]

Filed Under: Basketry/Furnishings, Book Arts/Paper Arts, Weaving Tagged With: Beginning Weaving, Jeanette Biederman, Marbling, Nancy Adams, Nancy Akerly, Splint-Woven Basketry

Sievers Sneak Preview

February 6, 2018 By Carolyn Foss

The days are quickly approaching the February 1st opening of Registration Week.  It is such a treat for us to hear from you in the middle of winter, anticipating the time we’ll share when you’re here for class (or for an Island visit). We will be welcoming one new teacher in 2018, Susan Frame.  She will open our 40th season teaching Class 1 – Beginning Weaving on a 4-Harness Floor Loom.  Susan took her first weaving class in 1982 and has continued learning since, including three classes at Sievers ( in 1988, 1989 and 2012).  Since 1989, Susan has had the pleasure of teaching weaving techniques at The Fiber Garden in Black River Falls, WI.  She and her husband live in Osseo, WI.  Welcome, […]

Filed Under: Basketry/Furnishings, Beading/Stitchery/Wearables, Book Arts/Paper Arts, Dyeing/Knitting/Spinning, Quilting, Sievers School, Surface Design, Weaving Tagged With: Sievers Class Schedule, Sievers School

Handmade Treasures

October 14, 2017 By Carolyn Foss

We probably could’ve included the words “handmade treasure” in each of this year’s class descriptions or titles, but it officially appeared in only one: Handmade Treasure Boxes.  We’re taking the liberty of applying those words to the two previous classes, as well, Creative Knitting Retreat with Sandy De Master and Mary Germain and the Open Knitting Studio session held in the Walter Studio, where eleven knitters worked independently on a variety of projects. The Creative Knitting Retreat class saw a number of knitters working on Latvian or Estonian-patterned mittens, Fair Isle, sweaters of all kinds, baby blankets and more.  Help in solving fit issues as it applies to hand knits, substituting yarns and deciphering patterns are just some of the talents Sandy and Mary bring to class […]

Filed Under: Book Arts/Paper Arts, Dyeing/Knitting/Spinning Tagged With: knitting, Mary Germain, Nancy Akerly, Paper Arts, Sandy De Master

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