7015 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64113 (816) 361-6643

Hours:
Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Marne Close
Kansas City, MO
Art Category:
Fiber Arts
Member since 2017

WOOL is my favorite medium. My philosophy for fiber arts is to make useful, practical items with beauty and whimsy.
I began knitting when I was eight years old moving to costuming school plays in high school.
After moving to Kansas City from St. Louis in 1979, I began weaving—although knitting remains my very portable therapy. When yarn stores began closing I decided I needed to learn to spin my own. For 10 years I sold handspun yarn along with knitted goods at the Renaissance Festival.
From spinning traditional rug hooking became my artistic outlet as it seems like painting with thin wool strips. I have been rug hooking for the past 20 years, either designing my own patterns or using purchased designs which I alter and use with my own color sense.
I still knit and am currently trying methods of incorporating appliqué and needle felting with my wool hooking.
Marne lives in Kansas City with her cat, and joined Eclectics in 2017.
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Marne Close
Hand-hooked

"Spring Rabbit" 8"x10" pillow, hand hooked with hand cut wool on cotton monk's cloth. Polyester filled. by Marne Close $50