Erika Moen

My one goal going in to Goodwill was to find a frame for this really pretty 12" x 18" print I bought at a craft fair and suspended in its flimsy plastic sleeve on my kitchen wall. As you can see in my photo on the left, the plastic sleeve is not doing the beautiful art by Joe Wirtheim any justice. T

I did it! I drew all 171 word prompts that you guys shared with me for the Joy Project! (This is a giant collaborative fiber art piece illustrating the things that bring people joy) I numbered each of the words that were submitted. Here's some of the sketches. 114 Floating Some words I'd realize "He

I did my first creative work on the Joy Project (working title)! You remember? That collaborative project that I used to lure a bunch of you into signing up to this Patreon? Yeah! That one! Watch the video above or just read this transcript of what I say in it below as Youtube-Erika: Ok, so remember

Ok! So! My collaborative fiber art project proposal was... very successful. Way more successful than I anticipated. In the end, 171 contributions were submitted by you all. Cool!!! ....Now.... how does one... begin turning 171 words into visual icons so they can be combined onto one enormous tapestr

UPDATE 2/3/23: Submissions CLOSED. --------------------------------------------------- I went to bed with this Patreon still needing three more sign-ups before I could start the big collaboration project I had proposed, and this morning I woke up to that goal number not only having been met but actu

Appliqué is the practice of sewing one smaller piece of fabric onto a larger piece of fabric to create a decoration, pattern, or image. It’s super fun!! I love it! I wanna appliqué everything! I wanna appliqué! With you! When? When this account reaches 450 patrons (we’re currently at 412 as of Jan 4