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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.