Threadworks is one of the best Original Fibre Art shows in Ontario, held every three years at the Wellington County Museum in Elora. It features anything that can be created with a needle and thread, with entries taking every shape and form imaginable. After the show, it tours for three years to various galleries and museums.

Each year, it's a different theme. In 2007, the theme was "Passions". I really wanted to make a doll that embodied two passions, shoes and chocolate. Thanks to Marianne Reitsma's class on how to use wire as a structural armature for 3-D constructions, I was able to create a shoe from "scratch" and cover it with quilted satins and taffeta.

The doll has lace stockings and her skirt layers feature silks, hand-painted lace, satins and taffeta in cream, chocolate and caramel colours. I used some stretch velvet for the bodice and soft curly rayon yarns for her hair. She hold a tiny box of chocolates (beads), and has one in her hand, ready to pop into her mouth.

Face is lightly needle sculpted and hand-painted.

Price: $795.00 plus taxes and shipping

  SOLD, but will continue on tour

 (See remaining tour schedule below)

Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, June 28 - July 31, 2008

Arthur Child Heritage Museum, Gananoque, Sept. 1 - Oct. 13, 2008

Station Gallery, Whitby, Oct. 25th - Dec. 7, 2008

Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, Dec. 19 - Feb. 1, 2009

Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Feb. 22 - April 6, 2009

Gallery in the Grove, Bright's Grove, Spring, 2009

Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden, June 2009

Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, July 18 - Sept. 23, 2009