W hile meandering through the Pennsylvania Endless Mountains Fiber Festival, I met Noel Margaret. I was absolutely intrigued by her ingenious approach to sculpture knitting, which combines her interests in fiber and the natural world, especially wildlife.
Microdermy Knits: North American Wildlife Collection, a miniature collection of taxidermy-inspired pieces, is quite different from the typical book of stuffed animals. The three bears we meet in Noel’s book are not Goldilocks’ bears, but rather miniature bust representations of the trio of bear species (black, brown, and polar) that inhabits North America. We are introduced to the lone cougar, which—because of its extensive range across the continent—is known by many names, including puma, mountain devil, and panther. A tiny herd of whitetailed deer, an opossum, a narwhal, a stoat, a cottontail rabbit,…
