Suburban Sights

"Inside and Out"

The first two images are of silk scarfs that I hand dyed, arashi shiboried, batiked, and used discharge paste on to created an inpired look from some previous photographs I took. The later photographs are from walking around Philadephia and Washington D.C.

My Personal Mountain

This is a fibers piece I've been working on for about a month. It started as a sculpture that relates to the patterns, shadow, highlights and texture of mountains, terrain and topography. Through the month it became my own personal mountain (running into every complication that is ever possible in weaving) and is still incomplete. I started by winding a 30 foot long warp made of hand dyed wool and cotton. After I wove it off, I put it in the washing machine to felt and shrink it. After a few cycles, whallah, I had a stiff woven piece that I shaped on the wall. I plan to go back into the sculpture with more wool and felt in sections of pattern and details. I learned a great deal of patience from this piece that's for sure! :)

Night and Day

Up, Down, Mid, Think, Koi, and Back

First Snow at My New Home

There is something about the way snow smells that made me stick my head out my classroom window and just breathe it in when I really should have been weaving. Instead of carrying my tired body home after a long long day at school I found my feet drawing in the snow.