{"id":23356,"date":"2016-12-02T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=23356"},"modified":"2016-12-02T17:49:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T22:49:28","slug":"love-fibre-art-thats-made-muskoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/love-fibre-art-thats-made-muskoka\/","title":{"rendered":"A love for fibre art that’s Made in Muskoka"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a fourth-generation fibre artist, Jen Manuell comes by her talents naturally. Her great-grandfather was a tailor, her grandmother and her aunt were rug hookers, and her mother was a weaver and a spinner. With yarn everywhere at home from the family’s six sheep, Jen took up knitting in high school, then began quilting, and then later followed in her grandmother and aunt’s footsteps to try her hand at hooking rugs, eventually designing her own patterns and teaching workshops, all while still working full time.<\/p>\n

She returned to quilting after moving home when her dad died, working with her sister to stitch beautiful creations, at first just for family and friends. They discovered they had a talent for it, and both quit their jobs in January to begin pursuing fibre arts instead. Sandra has since returned to her career, but Jen has carried on with Fish Eye Sisters. The name is an homage to their grandmother. “When we were kids she would give us the fish eye – the stink eye, the evil eye – but I didn\u2019t realize it was because she was cross. I just thought it was a funny face.”<\/p>\n

Jen’s creations are beautiful wool home goods – quilts, pillows, table runners and table mats – that are as cozy as they are colourful. She over-dyes the wool fabric to create a vast palette to choose from.<\/p>\n\n\t\t