Winter Repairs

Wool yarn, wool felt, thread, acid dye

5.5 × 8.5 inches

These small works are composed of fragments of earlier weavings made on my loom and gathered over many years. During a quiet winter residency at Penland School of Craft in the mountains of Western North Carolina, I found myself turning away from weaving new fabric and instead returning to my own archive,slowly piecing these fragments together through careful hand stitching.

The woven elements are collaged and hand-quilted onto a thick ivory wool felt ground. The process became a way of slowing down and gently mending what felt broken or disjointed in my life, gathering fragments of cloth, time, and memory. As Louise Bourgeois once described her own work, making can become a form of psychological repair.

Over time my own woven work has become a kind of source material. It is an archive I return to, where earlier experiments, colors, and structures can find new relationships.

Each piece holds a period of quiet time where I slowed enough to stitch every strand into place. Now they are ready to move on and live in new homes, where they may take on new meaning for others.

The works may be framed or mounted on a small wood support with velcro so they hover slightly away from the wall. When shown together, the pieces can be arranged across the wall like a quiet constellation.

Each work is one of a kind and entirely handmade.