Retail Profile

So who is Edwina Sutherland anyway? Well, a picture tells
you one thing: I have curly hair and a big smile.

I love creating art, using textiles as my medium. My career
has been spent drowning in fabric, creating historic reproduction costumes for
historic sites and museums. That means people wear my stuff and pretend to be
living in another era.

In between that, I started making little figures in costume
and other fantasy outfits. Call them art dolls, dolls, figurative art. They
tell stories to each person who looks at them. I talk about them on my blog and
in my monthly newsletter, where I also ponder creativity. www.edwinadolls.com See the box on the
left marked "FREEBIES?" well, you can sign up there!

I am always experimenting with new techniques, love making
things with wool, which usually means needle felting or wet felting. I have
done the knitted and shrunk in the washer kind of thing, but I don't call that
felting. Technically, it's fulling.

But I digress. I love to share what I am creating and
selling, whether it be a pattern to make one of my figures or supplies to have
a go yourself, or letting you know which dolls are listed for sale on my Etsy
store : "Not Carved In Stone." I also love to teach and offer workshops and
tutorials through my site and others. 

I love to share. I do that through the blog, which keeps you
up to date with what's sewing on at the studio. And yes, I have a studio. What
a lucky person I am!! Space in which to create. Well, some of my costumes do
take up a lot of space! 

So enjoy what I share with you, as I enjoy the sharing. I
love your comments and feedback.

What else am I interested in? I am fascinated with
Steampunk and things with holes in them, like lotus pods. I have to stroke
anything soft, love dogs and chocolate, of course!