Kimberly Baxter Packwood

Kimberly Baxter Packwood is a fiber artist living on the prairie, in Ames, Iowa. She is the owner of The Prairie Fibers Company, a supplier of natural dyes and other fiber arts supplies.

Kimberly uses several unique methods of creating designs on fabric. One is a technique she calls compost dyeing, which involves burying fabric in a compost pile for a period of time. Another technique is fermentation dyeing -- wrapping plant materials in fabric and sealing them in plastic for several weeks to several months

She then uses these fabrics in quilts -- piecing, layering and stitching. Here are four of her recent fiber art pieces that use compost- and fermentation-dyed fabrics.

Prairie Potholes II:



Pale Horse:



Sandstone I:



Sandstone II (Petraglyph):



You can see more of Kimberly's work on her fiber art website.