Bossy’s Feltworks is three friends/moms/islanders who have felted together since 2006.  When we started our business, we were looking to enmesh work life, camaraderie, and a posse of small children. Working at the kitchen table, our “Bossy Days” were filled with wool, tea, snacks, and negotiations. Now, that posse of toddlers are one by one moving in or out of high school, and our menagerie of animals has grown... and grown! Luckily, we never entertained the notion that life would get any less busy as our children grew!

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In fact, we're all working other vocations in addition to Bossy's Feltworks. Kari teaches 4th-6th graders at Salmonberry School on Orcas, a holistic school with multi-aged classrooms. Amy and her family have grown their farm into a valued island source for meat, cheese, produce and wool. In summer of 2019 they moved their farm to the Coffelt Farm Preserve in partnership with the San Juan County Land Bank. Visit their website at www.lumfarmllc.com. Mandy joined the crew at Lum Farm in 2020 and works alongside Amy milking goats and managing the farmstand and marketing. Her website, www.mandytroxel.com, showcases the beautful wool paintings she is creating. 

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Over the years Bossy has surprised us in so many ways, bringing us craft shows, farmer’s markets, and workshops and settling us into our own studio just outside of town. The scene is familiar: piles of wool, cups of tea and lots of laughter. There’s a special nook in the studio where we’ve fitted a couch for our kids to snuggle down and read our own childhood stashes of comic books. Deep into our second decade of business, we’re continuing to reassess and reconfigure, but we are committed to keeping a little space in our lives for wool and each other!