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Local featured in national needlework magazine
Blyth’s Sharlene Young-Bolen’s
passion for learning and sharing her
fibre arts experiences has led the
Blyth resident to be published in A
Needle Pulling Thread, a national
needlework magazine.
In it, Young-Bolen wrote about her
participation in a natural dying class
presented by Jennifer Triemstra-
Johnston’s Fashion Arts and
Creative Textiles (FACTS) program,
originally inspired by her desire to
craft a pair of fall-themed fingerless
gloves for her daughter.
Young-Bolen was very happy with
her piece being produced in the
magazine because it really
highlights one of her favourite
aspects of fibre arts.
“I’m actually very pleased with
the article being published,” she
said. “I found the experience so
interesting because it shows the
different assets of fibre arts. It’s
always a learning process, so I just
want to share what I’m learning as I
go along.”
She said she learned a lot
attending the workshop last summer
and wanted to share, so she proposed
the article to the magazine.
“They cover all different types of
fibre art, needlework and hobbies,”
she said. “They found the idea of
creating colours to be interesting.”
Young-Bolen said that, since the
workshop, she has seen an increased
interest in people looking to create
natural colouring.
“It’s a trend,” she said. “In my
reading, and Facebook posts, and in
magazines and on websites, people
seem to be wanting to learn how to
work with natural colours, so I hit a
good time with this article.”
Young-Bolen said the interest is
likely couched in the fact that people
interested in fibre arts are becoming
more environmentally considerate.
“They want to know how to create
colours, if it was done safely and
how it can be done with natural
supplies,” she said. “Those are
questions people ask before they
decide if they’re going to use a fibre
in a sweater for a friend or child.”
Young-Bolen feels that, by sharing
her experiences, she’s very much
paying forward what people in the
fibre arts realm have done for her.
“I find there is always someone
out there who can help you,” she
said. “There is always someone who
knows more about a certain fibre and
they like to help each other.”
Young-Bolen is looking forward
to doing more dye workshops
through FACTS, especially since she
missed the flower-based session last
year. The session she attended
focused on plants and kitchen scraps
being used as a base for colouring
and really impressed her.
“My colours adopted a very dark
green and that came from a red
onion, interestingly enough,” she
said, explaining that she dyed the
wool then used a mordant which
produced the rich colour. “That’s
really fascinating. I didn’t think a red
onion would produce that colour.”
The gloves found some use for her
daughter but, as Young-Bolen
explains, she eventually inherited
them back and has been wearing
them herself. She said she has
been impressed by the fact that
the colour has held through
washing.
For more information on Young-
Bolen’s work, go to her Facebook
page called “Stitch Revival Studio”.
On it, she shares information about
her projects, which include creating
new patterns based on vintage
textiles. She also shares “the story
behind the stitches” in trying to
follow in the footsteps of the past
creators.
The mitts the article focuses on,
for example, were created by
combining techniques she found in
two counterpane coverlets in the
Huron County Museum’s collection
with another pattern, and she
explains that process on her
Facebook page and blog.
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
Back in town
The artists behind the Blyth Festival production of The Pigeon King were in Blyth last week to
rehearse ahead of their two-week stint at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. They will be back
on the Memorial Hall stage on April 18 for the production’s album release and a special
concert. From left: Blyth Festival Artistic Director Gil Garratt, George Meanwell, J.D. Nicholsen,
Greg Gale, Birgette Solem and Rebecca Auerbach. (Shawn Loughlin photo)