Fiber Art

Hand stitching techniques include quilting, cording, free-form embroidery and French knots. “Body Map” started with an original painting by Larry Rushing. A small portion of the painting was digitally printed onto a woven cotton blend fabric and layered with batting and a backing.  Made in 2020.

Shibori is a Japanese form of tie-dye. My work features multiple-colored dyes applied one at a time, using various items to resist areas in each layer of color: including wrapping on a pole with string, folding and stitching and/or clamping with various shaped objects before dyeing each color. Some are pressed after drying and some

Asian Allusion is made from an original jacquard woven fabric that features color mixing of cotton and rayon yarns in a variety of plain, satin and twill weaves.  The imagery was inspired by colorful Chinese herbal medicine packaging. This wall hanging is 51” high by 56” wide, hung on a wooden dowel through a casing

A series of original jacquard woven fabrics with motifs that include the symbol for White Light, forms from traditional Chinese medicine packaging and the face of my dog Dia. Yarn combinations were used for color blending, and parts of the original fabric were appliqued onto the base.

Inspired by living and teaching in Qatar

Parasailing Pink Elephants is inspired by the first record album I ever owned, Walt Disney’s “Dumbo” (the Flying Elephant). Machine knitted and fulled wool, 2013.

Inspired by a conceptual chair prototype, “The Falling Apart Chair”, by Johan Granberg, the chair was intended to fall apart when it got “tired”.  This brought to mind a human spine in stress, and the radiating circles were necessary to tie down the second color in the background.  The fabric was intended to be a

Dobby Woven Wall Hangings – mixed fibers combined with fulled (sometimes called felted) wool, mounted on silk squares, 8″ x 8″ each, 2010 The inspiration for this group was a collection of digitally designed Dobby loom woven sample squares that were accidentally washed and shrunk into 3D forms – Several of these pieces have been

Mixed fiber hand crochet flowers forms with machine and hand knitted stems and composite vases, 2009 Shown at Metaphoric Fibers: Knit & Crochet, Textile Center of MN, Minneapolis, MN 2010

Civil War Ballgown made from American Army camouflage – bodice and skirt and hand sewn glass beaded armor, made for a contemporary Civil War Ball as a war protest, 2008.