Fiber artist Susan Taylor Brown creates highly textured hand-stitched fiber art inspired by nature and the landscape of the natural world. Her Wildscapes combine embroidery, mixed fibers, stones, wood, and layered stitching to create immersive textile art rich in texture.
On this channel you’ll find fiber art tutorials, embroidery techniques, stitching process videos, studio chats about creativity and the artistic life, materials and tool discussions, and glimpses into Navarra Wilds, her California native wildlife garden in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.
From French knots and intuitive stitching to habitat gardening and slow creative living, this channel is for artists, makers, nature lovers, and anyone drawn to a more thoughtful creative practice.
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Susan Taylor Brown
It's been a day. A combination of finishing projects, being frustrated with some materials, and trying to figure out where everything's going to fit eventually.
But forward steps are good.
9 hours ago | [YT] | 10
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Susan Taylor Brown
Starting to play with arrangements for all the goodies. I'm sure I will move everything around half a dozen times before Saturday.
Come see me at Santa Cruz Open Studios this weekend and the next. I'm studio 212 in Scotts Valley.
1 day ago | [YT] | 18
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Susan Taylor Brown
And so the setup for Open Studios begins. My back is killing me. My feet are killing me and my throat is sore from inhaling all the dust from moving all the furniture around but we have a plan.
And that makes me happy.
2 days ago | [YT] | 31
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Susan Taylor Brown
This dog is going to be so disappointed. This is her last day to hang out in her chair by the window for two whole weeks.
But she is the official greeter for Open studio so hopefully that will soften the blow a little bit.
Tomorrow we bring in all the tables and begin to set up for Open Studios. It will be challenging in this small house but I have some ideas to play with.
I'm getting excited.
3 days ago | [YT] | 26
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Susan Taylor Brown
And the green ornament/brooches are done. That means all the beating is done and tomorrow I can work on the pinbacks for all of them. On schedule but exhausted.
4 days ago | [YT] | 30
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Susan Taylor Brown
Just about done with the white ornament/ brooches. And then I can start on the green, which are the last ones to finish.
5 days ago | [YT] | 22
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Susan Taylor Brown
Finished all the gold ornament/ brooches today. On to the white tonight.
6 days ago | [YT] | 18
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Susan Taylor Brown
Working on the reds today.
1 week ago | [YT] | 4
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Susan Taylor Brown
All day in the studio getting the next layer of the final batch of convertible brooch ornaments/ornament brooches done. Next up is beading.
And yes there are some Halloween colors in there. Mostly because I had the fibers that were perfect for them
1 week ago | [YT] | 3
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Susan Taylor Brown
More of the bases for the ornament/ brooches are coming together. I should finish all the bases tonight and be ready to start beading tomorrow.
A happy kind of progress making day.
1 week ago | [YT] | 1
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