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Fiber Artist Feature: Benjamin Krudwig
It’s been a while since we’ve featured a fiber artist here on this blog, so we are pleased to share this interview with Benjamin Krudwig, a designer and fiber artist living in Colorado with his wife and two cats. He … Continue reading
Fiber Artist Feature: Esther Rodgers – Jazzturtle Creations
We’re glad that you enjoyed our previous Fiber Artist Feature with Nicole Frost from Frostyarn. As part of our ongoing series, today’s interview is with Esther Rodgers from Jazzturtle Creations. Esther is a brilliant fiber artist who spins, weaves, knits, … Continue reading
Fiber Artist Feature: Nicole Frost – Frostyarn
This industry is filled with amazing and talented artists from all different backgrounds, and it’s always inspiring to get to know them better. This week, we have Nicole Frost, fiber artist behind Frostyarn, and avid user of Strauch Drum Carders. … Continue reading
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Tagged artist feature, batts, Fiber, fiber prep, frostyarn, interview, nicole frost, strauch fiber equipment
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Staff Highlight: Liz Ackermann
Today we’re featuring one of our staff, Liz Ackermann. Liz has worked for Strauch Fiber Equipment for more than 10 years assembling drum carders, ball winders, and swifts. In her spare time, she enjoys weaving, spinning, knitting and whatever other … Continue reading
Featured Artist: Felt Away Designs
Today we’re featuring Ruth from Felt Away Designs. Ruth purchased a motorized doublewide Mad Batt’r last December so she could create beautiful blended batts for her fiber art. Felt AwayDesigns is a business out of Howell, Michigan that crafts quality, one of … Continue reading
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WestPark Alpacas
Today we’re excited to feature one of our customers, an alpaca farm in Pennsylvania that purchased a Strauch carder for creating batts from their alpaca fiber which are turned into felted pieces. Below is an interview with Pat Scheer, one … Continue reading
Book Review, Needle Felting: Sculpting People With Wool by Terese Cato
Today we’re excited to review a lovely new book, Needle Felting: Sculpting People With Wool by Terese Cato. Terese was taught to sew, knit, and crochet by her aunt. Her aunt didn’t have any formal training, only the skills learned … Continue reading
Featured Artist: Elysa Darling
Today we’re excited to feature a wonderful fiber artist, Elysa Darling from 222Handspun. Elysa creates and sells beautiful art batts and art yarns through her Etsy shop, and blogs on her website, 222Handspun. Today we’re sharing photos of Elysa’s batts … Continue reading
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Tagged drum carder, fiber artist, hand carding, mad batt'r
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A Weekend with Jazzturtle
A couple of weeks ago we went down to North Carolina to visit Esther Rodgers from Jazzturtle Creations! We had a lovely time visiting and we also filmed some great tutorials, which we’ll be posting on the Strauch Youtube Channel … Continue reading
Posted in About Strauch, Fiber, Strauch Artists, Strauch Products
Tagged behind the scenes, Jazzturtle, North Carolina
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