Anita Mester - Austin, TX
Retired
Hand dyed batting, commercial fabric, needle felted thread scrapes (16 Leaves)

Ann Butwell - Minneapolis, MN
Educator
www.annoriginal.etsy.com
Wax resist and dyes on silk. Beads and thread line the edges, card stock makes it stiff. "Thank you for creating this project!"

Ann Young - Aylesbury, England
Housewife
Kernin Felt, Chitton, Angeliva, Markal, nappy liners, machine wrapped wire, beads, hot air fused to make leaves.

April Soncrant - Garland, TX
Admin. Operations Manager / Construction sales
www.apryllx.typepad.com
Wool, felted, roving, needle felted by hand & fibers added for detail.

Brenda Parker - Winchester, Hampshire UK, Artist
www.axisweb.org/artist/brendaparker.com
Silk, cotton, machine embroidery, beads, wire, foam
"Leaves depend on our trees - we must do what we can to preserve rain forests, plantations, even the trees in our gardens. Plant More, if we wish to survive, we need leaves"

Brownie Troop #632
(Supervisor - Elizabeth Rankin) - Huntsville, AL
Old Magazines
"This brownie troop made these leaves from cardboard & old magazine clippings. They are all 1st & 2nd graders!"

Elizabeth Rankin, Central Presbyterian Church - Huntsville, AL
Children's Ministry Co-Director
Recycled Material, Felt, old puzzles
"Our Bible study was given the option of different materials to form their own creations"

Dana Fisher - Greensboro, NC
www.danawamerfisher.blogspot.com
100% commercial cotton, iron-on fleece, embroidery floss - blanket stitch on edge, stem stitch on veins. "Representation of a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya (Bihar) India"

David W. Thomas - NYC, NY
Artist, teacher at Manhattan Graphics and Shoe Salesman
Silkscreen using acrylic and pencil on felt.
"Using the theme of love and war, the lines in the leaves separate the individuals making them interdependent in our chaotic World"

Edward Vance - Taft, TN
7th grader at Riverside Christian Academy in Fayetteville, TN
Black card stock & colored pencils
"This was fun making my leaf and I hope we do this next year and have fun again"

Franki Kohler - oakland, CA
www.postmarkdart.com
Cotton fabric, fast 2 fuze, polyester thread.
"Great project! And best wishes for your complete success. Thank you for letting me participate."

Gerry Brock - Perrysburg, OH
Handmade Paper Artist
"Recycled Leaf"
Recycled leaves, handmade paper, copper wire
"If only Mother Nature could recycle her leaves, I wouldn't have to rake them anymore"

Gretchen Jolles - St Johns, FL
Artist
Free motion embroidery couching, and paint

Gillian Hess - Amherst, N.S Canada
Letter Carrier
Sock yarn: (fleece Artist) held doubled using the Mountain Laurel leaf pattern as a starting point. Hand Knit.
"Difficult to get the exact dimensions but this is pretty close"

Jo Appleton - Duncanville, TX
Admin. Associate by day: Fiber Artist by night
www.appletonstudios.com
www.appletonstudios.blogspot.com
Cotton, wool felt, polyester thread, cotton batting, machine pieced and stitched

Judy Freidel - Hot Springs, Arkansas
Artist/Clerical
www.judyafreidel.artspan.com
Quilted Fabric
"Quilters are natural recyclers... turning used clothes & findings into warm quilts"

Judy Walsh - Alexandria, VA
Dilettante - Master of Nothing
Cotton fabric scraps, inkjet printer fabric, feathery craft yarn

Karen Chaussabel - Richardson, TX
Artist in the Making
Linen, thread, paint, pastel, book page (trees of Texas - American Beech page)
"This leaf is my very first mixed media piece made with a sewing machine. I hadn't touched a machine since home economics, and that was a bad experience. I had the good fortune to join the Dallas Area Fiber Artists where our president very generously offered her old machine for me to try again! And I took heart and courage and approached the machine again. That's how this leaf came to life. A meeting of opportunity, generosity and courage."

Kath Gunn - Stewkley, Bucks, UK
Textile Artist
Organza ribbon and threads sandwiched between dissolvable fabric. Free machine embroidery before dissolvable washed away.
"Our bodies are fragile, when things go wrong, we depend on those who care for us."

Laura Vance - Taft, TN
2nd grader at Riverside Christian Academy
black card stock & oil pastels
"It was a Blast! we had so much fun!

Linda H. MacDonald - Powell WY
Retired
Commercial cotton fabrics & batting, quilted

Ms. Robinsunne - Rockport, Maine
Artist
www.robinsunne.com
Felt with old puzzle pieces and polymer fish, Felt with candy wrappers, play money, leftover polymer clay made into beads and hand stitching!

Norma Elba Fernandez - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Housewife - student of textile disciplines
Dyeing Jute - Knots
"I became aware of you through the C.A.A.T web site and I'm very pleased to share your experience!"

Pam Patton - Carrollton, TX
Product Manager
Commercial Cotton, Cotton felt, decorative yarn, beads, charms.
Fussing, machine thread painting, couching, hand embellishment.

Regula Allenspach Weill - San Francisco, CA
Floral Designer / Fiber Artist
www.fiberdimensions.com
"I used recycled business cards which were photographed from a self constructed large Shaji Screen panel. Each sheet of paper is hand made and to each individual panel I incorporated a wide variety of dried Botanicals. Here I made a copy of a Ginkgo leaf as stencil, pearl thread to tie cards together and copper wire for stems." "I am a professional Floral Designer from Switzerland. Over the years I expanded the scope to fiber art sculptures for interior design."

Robin Olsen - Portland Oregon
robinolsen.blogspot.com
Fabric, Tyvek and funky crochet
The leaf represents the moss and fungi that live on trees all over the Pacific Northwest.

Sherry Boram - Pendleton, IN
Retired
Cotton flannel, cotton print, Fused to pellon interfacing. Embellished with sequin waste and nylon twine.

Stephanie Hofmann - Ennetbaden, Switzerland
Handfelter
www.binimgarten.blogspot.com
"wool, directly cutted from the sheep, not washed or in any way processed or treated. Hand felted with out soap - dried and then embroidered with long hairs of "Heidschnucke" (another sheep breed) both breeds of sheep were living in Switzerland near my home - it's important to me to use fibers which come from the wearer surrounding."

Sue Ellen Romanowski - East Syracuse, NY
Retired
Hand Dyed Cotton, Hand guided machine threadwork

Taylor McLendon - Huntsville, AL
"My leaf shows how natures true beauty can unify us all. The calm serenity found along the beaches of Ft Morgan have filled my heart with decades of memories about a women I will never forget.

Wendy Ferguson-Whitehead - Wilson, North Carolina
Elementary Art Teacher
Fabric, silk flowers, buttons, beads, hand stitched leaf
"These leaves are shinning examples of nature's hand work. Their beauty remind us of a simple peace."

Whitesburg Elementary - Huntsville, AL (300 Leaves Submitted)
Deena (Art Teacher) & Students
Oil pastels on recycled blue jeans & fabric samples collaged on felt.
"What a great project! The students really enjoyed making the leaves. Students from all of my classes (k-5) participated in the project.

St. Andrew's - Sewanee School (7th Grade) - Sewanne, TN
Teacher - Christi Teasley
www.sasweb.org   
Felt (handmade) with stitching
Student Participants: Alyson, Emily, Jenna, Eli, Mitchell, Emma, Katelyn, Hannah, Montana, Michaela, David, Will, Marisa, Ashley, Sarah, Ian, Hunter, Anna, Lucy, Abe, Cooper, Michiah, Cody, Marharet, Mikaela, Andrew - photos below

Poland School - Urakon, Poland (Bottom 7 Photos)
Teacher: Elzbieta Kuzniar & Dorota Sobol
Gymnasium NR 24 im.T. Boya-Zelenshiege
www.g24krahou.hg.pl
Pupils
Margerita, Maciej, Ewelina, Kinga, Kamila, Dagmara, Dominika, Jan, Aneta, Katarzyna, Aleksandra, Piotr, Karolina, Barbara, Patrycja, Aleksandra, Kamil, Marta, Joanna, Zofie, Karol, Marta, Katarzyna, Filip, Joachim, Patrycja, Marcin, Wiktor, Julia, Weronika, Jakub, Weronika, Jakub, Magdalena, Karolina, Iwona, Kamila, Stanislaw, Karolina, Olga, Pailina, Katarzyna.
 
Poland Primary School - Krakow, Poland (Top 6 photos)
Teacher: Elzbieta Kuzniar & Katarzyna Gielzecka
Primary School  Tadeusz Kosciuslio 25
www.sp25.republika.pl
Pupils, Age: 11-12
Kacper, Anna, Michal, Anna, Mateusz, Adam, Magdalena, Katarzyna, Mateusz, Adam, Agnieszka, Mikolaj, Ada, Julian, Jakub, Marta, Maciej, Wojciech, Ada, Michal, Joanna, Julia, Anna, Aleksandra, Ida, Tomasz, Magdalena, Magdalena, Agnieszka, Klaudia, Jacek, Kamila, Patryk, Dominika, Natalia, Renata, Marek, Patrycja, Kamila, Maja, Piotr, Kinga, Artur, Karolina, Karolina, Gabrysia, Kamil, Adam, Renata, Joanna, Patriyk