Kelly Dubois Brandt began her wool craft odyssey in 1975 when four horned Dorset sheep came to her five acre farm "just to keep the pasture down". She soon fell in love with the lustrous fleece revealed by shearing and developed projects to use the fiber. Starting with wool filled comforters, Kelly soon expanded her skills to locker hooking and spinning. Then she discovered felting and is now known for her extraordinary felting skills having developed a wide variety of felted products.
Kelly's enthusiasm for sharing the fiber arts and the animals that produce the fiber has led her to teach felting to young and old alike throughout the mid-west. A guest instructor at Grand Rapids Children's Museum and featured in the Grand Rapids Press, she currently offers ongoing classes at her studio in Lake Odessa. Her fiber creations have been showcased at craft and art shows, many galleries and shops including "Art on the Hill" in Grand Rapids.
Heidi Bukowski has been knitting and sewing since childhood. Her mother taught her to weave when she was 14, and she has been designing fabric and garments ever since. An accomplished spinner, she configures special yarns for unique effects in the fabric she weaves. With her skills in spinning, weaving, and felting, she creates garments, hats, and sculptures that are lovely to touch and wear. A keen observer of form and color, Heidi draws on her love of nature to carry natural shapes and colors into her textiles and beads and dyes many of her fibers and yarns herself. Heidi teaches at Michigan Fiber Festival, The Porcupine Mountains Folk School, local schools and at numerous area events. Heidi will be conducting several workshops during 2019 season. Heidi lives in Sand Lake, Michigan with her husband and cats. She has two adult sons.
Kelly's enthusiasm for sharing the fiber arts and the animals that produce the fiber has led her to teach felting to young and old alike throughout the mid-west. A guest instructor at Grand Rapids Children's Museum and featured in the Grand Rapids Press, she currently offers ongoing classes at her studio in Lake Odessa. Her fiber creations have been showcased at craft and art shows, many galleries and shops including "Art on the Hill" in Grand Rapids.
Heidi Bukowski has been knitting and sewing since childhood. Her mother taught her to weave when she was 14, and she has been designing fabric and garments ever since. An accomplished spinner, she configures special yarns for unique effects in the fabric she weaves. With her skills in spinning, weaving, and felting, she creates garments, hats, and sculptures that are lovely to touch and wear. A keen observer of form and color, Heidi draws on her love of nature to carry natural shapes and colors into her textiles and beads and dyes many of her fibers and yarns herself. Heidi teaches at Michigan Fiber Festival, The Porcupine Mountains Folk School, local schools and at numerous area events. Heidi will be conducting several workshops during 2019 season. Heidi lives in Sand Lake, Michigan with her husband and cats. She has two adult sons.