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Beyond the Pattern / Sculptural Bags & Wearable Art
An Intuitive Fiber Arts Experience with Kim Soles
Move beyond patterns and into the world of intuitive fiber art. (Max 8 participants)
Working with yarn, fibers, fabric, texture, and color, we'll explore freeform crochet as a sculptural medium. Through simple stitches and intuitive design, you'll create organic forms, textured mosaics, pockets, spirals, and layered elements that evolve into an original piece of functional fiber art.
Whether your work becomes a wearable bag, vessel, wall piece, or something entirely unexpected, you'll leave with a one-of-a-kind creation.
Bring your curiosity, an open mind, a crochet hook or two, and an assortment of yarns, fibers, and found materials that inspire you.
A community basket of shared fibers, buttons, fabric strips, and natural materials will be available throughout the workshop.
A Three-Part Creative Experience
Without patterns, only possibilities.
Imagine
Explore freeform crochet through color, texture, and curiosity. Using simple stitches, create motifs, spirals, and sculptural forms.
Create
Connect your pieces through layering and composition, allowing your work to evolve naturally.
Celebrate
Finish your wearable art, then gather to share, celebrate, and photograph your completed work.
About Kim
Kim Soles learned to crochet in third grade and, from the very beginning, was more interested in inventing than following patterns. That lifelong spirit of curiosity continues to shape her work today.
After leaving New York City in 2001 and her career as an accessories designer, Kim became a home décor designer for Anthropologie, where she created original print designs, embroidered textiles, and handcrafted pieces inspired by the natural world. She also designed whimsical children's clothing using upcycled materials, celebrating texture, color, and the beauty of handmade details.
Today, working in freeform crochet, Kim creates sculptural fiber pieces that blur the line between function and art. As an artist and educator, she invites others to stay curious, follow their intuition, and trust the element of surprise.
Weaving nature into everything I do, I have traveled a lifelong road of color, light, and creativity as an artist and photographer.
Foregoing the traditional thirty-year position at a single company, I have diligently carved my own path, creating opportunities through imagination, desire, and grit. As a single parent, much of that drive came from a desire to provide a safe and nurturing home while creating opportunities for my daughter to experience the arts.
This fall through spring, I will be offering workshops and classes for adults. Beyond the Pattern is a free-form crochet workshop for those who wish to move beyond traditional instructions and explore their own creative language through fiber.
Beautiful Books is designed for those who wish to learn how to create and produce meaningful books as gifts to themselves and others.
As a lifelong creator, it is not one thing that makes us. It is the many things we weave together through endless hours of thought, creativity, and doing.
This is the thread. The color. The light.
And the commitment to keep doing what lies in the heart.
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About Kim Soles & Indigo Nature Arts
Kim Soles, founder and director of Indigo Nature Arts, has inspired hundreds of children through nature-based programs for over 14 years. While Indigo is no longer offering full, summer-long camp schedules, Kim is creating smaller, meaningful camp weeks—bringing the same energy, enthusiasm, and care to every single week together.
"Thank you to the Tree House, our home away from home, and to every family who has grown with us over the years. You and your children made Indigo everything it became. A special thank you to the dedicated teachers and counselors whose time, care, and creativity kept our energy and imagination thriving."
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First Class Free
PARENT FEEDBACK
Indigo Nature Arts has been a vital part of my daughter’s life for 7 years. Kim designs programs that encourage wonder, creativity and learning while meeting each child where they are. ~ Carrie M.
Summer Camp is always fun, full of different themes and the freedom to play and be creative. My kids love Indigo Camp and are happy to return every year. ~ Julianna A.
INDIGO NATURE ARTS SUPPORTS BLACK LIVES MATTER. OUR HEARTS, MINDS, EARS, EYES, AND ARMS ARE WIDE OPEN. WE WILL, AND WE DO, WELCOME YOU TO SPEAK, TEACH OR CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE TO LEARN ABOUT RACISM, TO GAIN A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING.
Thank you Camp Families!
Over the past ten years, Indigo Nature Arts has proudly served families and children from more than 29 schools throughout the Philadelphia area and beyond.
Abington Friends School
C.W. Henry
Enfield Elementary School
Erdenheim
Fanny Jackson Coppin
Germantown Academy
Germantown Friends School
Greene St Friends School
Henry H. Houston Elementary
Homeschooled
ICS
Independence Charter
KBA
Lingelbach Elementary
Lower Gwynedd Elementary
Miquon
Moffet Elementary
Perelman Jewish Day School
Plymouth Meeting Friends
Ridge Park
Southwark
Springfield Township
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
St. Luke's Glenside
Stratford Friends School
Summit Children's Program
The Philadelphia School
The Waldorf School of Philadelphia
Whitemarsh Elementary School
Indigo Nature Arts provides programming that takes place amongst some of Philadelphia's enchanting and exceptional natural landscapes. Children unplug from the technological and competitive world, and engage within natural environments.
Indigo Nature Arts encourages the freedom to discover through play and creativity. In turn, children naturally develop valuable skills at their own pace.
Art and photography classes, yearly summer camps, and winter programming offer opportunities for children to "be" in nature, and truly experience the transformation of the seasons.
Children are supported to visually and physically express themselves. Thoughtful guidance and love, nurtures growth and healthy development.
Documenting the rich experiences the children have over the years tells the story of Indigo Nature Arts. Please take a moment and browse the gallery by clicking the image above.
Listening to a child tell their story helps them to feel at ease. Children are eager to share their experiences, even the imaginary ones! Developing patience to listen to one another leads to tolerance. It helps children to discover more about their peers and friendships develop.
When the mind, body and spirit are fully engaged in physical activity and hands-on exploration, the magic of invention happens. Wonder and surprise helps the child to blossom.
Indigo Summer Camp is in its 9th year serving families with children between the ages of 5-12 years-old.
Camp is held primarily outdoors in a forest setting, and offers
remarkable and diverse landscapes for exploration. Professional, loving, intuitive teachers and counselors offer respectful care and knowledge.
Indigo Nature Arts camp runs on the belief that summertime is for play-time and down-time. We create a community environment where the children enjoy simple, yet memorable adventures, such as scouting for frogs, toads and snails, investigating insects in the meadow, exploring and playing at the creek, and hiking the trails in the Andorra Natural Area.
Child-led play, minute-morning-mediation, mini-healing herbs lessons, handwork, imaginative nature-based art projects, painting, drawing, and natural science, weave together practical programming.