Photo Journeys through Fiber, Art, Craft and Farms
This category on this website covers places we have visited in Maine or beyond, places that are beyond our town or doorstep and stories here that are primarily based on the traveling experience. It also happens to be our default category so if anyone posting a story forgets to categorize it, Touring will be the category. If you want to find a specific place, searching archives in this category may be too broad to be of help.
Carolyn Wollen and her great friend Mary Lou Steptoe came together for some fiber explorations in Maine this Spring. They like to peruse Maine Fiberarts‘ online Tour Map and publications, and then plan a trip around …
Friends Mary Lou Steptoe and Carolyn Wollen truly love to explore fiber art when traveling. Mary Lou found the studio of Barbara Burns in Maine Fiberarts’ “Fiber Art Masters Book”—a small publication profiling the work …
Franklin/Somerset Travels: Traveling North, Hutton Studio, and my campsite Tasked with finding fiber artists, shops and farms in Franklin and Somerset Counties by a grant generously given to Maine Fiberarts through the Maine Community Foundation, I …
Franklin/Somerset Travels: South Solon Meeting House, Skowhegan, Maine Grains and Happy Knits Up early the next morning, I settled my camp and took to the road. I had been to the South Solon Meeting House once …
Franklin/Somerset Travels: Dark Star Fabrics, Anne Walker Studio, Mt. Blue State Park and Farmington On this day, I started off in Strong, gassing up at The White Elephant, a huge catchall store for food, camping, takeout, …
Franklin/Somerset Travels: Wynmere Farm, Jill Snyder Wallace, Mount Vernon and a loon As luck would have it, Maine Fiberarts’ member Jacqueline Horn of Wynmere Farm in New Vineyard was home. I saw the Jacob’s sheep, …