At right, Marilyn Rockafellow displays some of her chip carved items. The chip carved birdhouse is styled after the Scandinavian Stabbur houses. She won second place in geometric category at a carving ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Daniel Clay is an artist, woodworker, and woodcarver who specializes in chip carving. He carves both functional and nonfunctional pieces. He uses a knife to make small ...

Harvey Paris needed to find a solo activity that would keep him busy when his wife began attending rabbinical school in 2006. “She told me, ‘You need a hobby, and it can’t be the bongo drums because I ...

Talk about carving out a niche for yourself. That’s exactly what Wayne Barton did when he began woodcarving. Barton, who lives in Park Ridge and teaches in Lake Forest and Des Plaines, made what ...

Using a simple hand tool positioned at precise angles on the wood, Kari Hultman of Lemoyne deftly transforms a plain piece of basswood with the elegant geometric designs of chip carving. The ...

Any Monday night, you're welcome to come on over to Cherry Lane United Methodist Church, where you'll find a dozen or so men and women — mostly men — busily working with wood. Some are carving in the ...

MARYSVILLE — Elaine Swan gave her husband his Christmas present early. It was a warm blanket to fight the chills he was suffering because of asbestos-related disease. Lyle Swan, 70, loved his present.