Fiber artist Danielle Engwert has always had a creative streak.

“I remember my mother saying to me, ‘Dannie, you can set the table because it will take you as long to arrange everything on the table so it’s pretty as it will take me to fix dinner,’” she recalls.

A Stoneham native and current Marion resident, Engwert learned to weave textiles while living with her husband and kids in Indiana.

The family had purchased a house complete with a cow (that her husband wanted to keep) and a sheep (that she wanted to keep), and the thought of not only learning to weave but using her own yarn was appealing.

A few angora goats later, Engwert was fashioning her own handwoven pieces.

“We didn’t have any idea what we were doing,” said Engwert. But, “We had a lot of fun.”

While Engwert, an elementary school teacher, had always been artistic, spending much of her college electives on art and dance classes, it was weaving that became her real passion.

Pen and ink drawing was too tedious, but for some reason stringing more than a hundred pieces of thread on a loom wasn’t.

“It’s a routine, it’s a ritual, and I really enjoyed it,” she said.

The new hobby had her seeing color and possible projects everywhere.

“It was an all-consuming thing,” she said.

For a while Engwert did incorporate some of her own sheep and angora wool into her work, but eventually she decided to forgo the labor-intensive farming. While the sheep and goats were gone, Engwert’s passion for weaving didn’t waver.

“When I started weaving I didn’t know what to do with it. I made yards and yards,” Engwert said.

As she turned her textiles into pieces such as pillows and scarves, she found that she had a number of small pieces left over. With an artist’s resourcefulness, she fashioned those scraps into beautiful greeting cards that were picked up by Constance Kay, Inc., a company based in New York City that specializes in frame-worthy handmade cards.

Engwert says she has made 600 different designs.

“The biggest problem is finding the ones that are the most popular and how to narrow them down to what really works. My brain never stops,” she said.

Engwert’s art was put on hold a few years ago as she and her husband relocated from Indiana to Marion to care for her brother. Life has been full of challenges and change for the artist, whose brother and husband passed away over the course of the past two years, but she is finding a place for her art in the tri-town and beyond.

Harrod’s in England has requested several batches of her cards, which are also featured at the Marion Bookstall and Hangman’s Hut, also in Marion. Her card and pillows will be for sale at the Marion Art Center’s Holiday Shop, which opens the evening of Nov. 20 and extends through Dec. 18.

On Wednesday evening at the Mattapoisett Library, local crafters can learn some of Engwert’s techniques at a card-making workshop. (Learn more here.)

“I love to do it,” Engwert said of her art. “It’s very peaceful. It’s very relaxing. I’m excited to see how people will respond to it.”