Karen Buell Designs

About Karen

Needlework, designing and teaching have been a major part of  Karen's life for many years.  Teaching a regular class means designing new projects to learn new techniques and to keep those techniques fresh and exciting.  This has led to making these designs into a form that could be shared with others not in the class setting.  Karen has always enjoyed the doing and creating of needlework, but gains a special pleasure from sharing this joy by helping others learn and create. 

Although mainly self-taught, Karen gained teaching skills through college training as an elementary teacher and needlework and design skills through study at the Council of American Embroiderers Correspondence School where she became a certified teacher in Creative Stitchery and Counted Thread Embroidery.   Teaching by correspondence was a rewarding experience along with face to face teaching.

Karen travels as well and has taught workshops for Guilds in the midwest including an annual visit to Sievers School of Fiber Art on Washington Island, Wisconsin.  Consult her teaching schedule below for her upcoming class opportunities. 

Home is in the north woods of Minnesota where Karen lives with her recently retired husband, Doug.  They have a son, a daughter and 4 grandchildren.  

Teaching Schedule

Regular winter classes are in session in Hoyt Lakes and Virginia.  Contact Karen at info@karenbuelldesigns.com for more information.    

Spring Retreat - May 18 & 19, 2005. Beaded Bag is a Hoyt Lakes 2-Day Retreat in which we will create a patchwork bag in the size of your choosing; from an amulet bag to a clutch bag large enough to hold a checkbook.  It will be created from coat weight wool, pieced crazy patchwork fashion and embellished with embroidery and beads. More information and registration is available by e-mailing to info@karenbuelldesigns.com 

Karen will be at Sievers School of Fiber Art from August 5-12.  She will teach a weekend class Bead Embroidery: All in White from August 5-7.  Students will create a bead embroidery of an angel with a variety of bead sizes and types, but all in white.  August 7-12 Karen will teach "Almost Crazy" Patchwork using crazy patchwork in a rather controlled fashion to create a woodland scene.  Embellishment techniques in bead embroidery, embroidery and silk ribbon embroidery will be covered.  For more information on Sievers classes e-mail Sievers@atol.com for a catalogue and registration materials or go to www.seiversschool.com for online information.