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Winter Repairs
These small works (5.5 × 8.5 in) are composed of fragments of handwoven cloth made on my loom and collected 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 slowly piecing together these remnants with many hand stitches.
The woven fragments 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 described, the work becomes a form of psychological repair.
These pieces hold a period of time where I slowed enough to stitch each strand into place.