Falls Church, VA
My Foreign Service retirement coincided with the onset of the COVID pandemic. With newfound time on my hands, I started to experiment with dyeing and felting and rediscovered my creative passion and the joy of making things.
I love the feel of handling and placing the fibers, a state of calm attentiveness that is guided more by intuition than by conscious effort. Along the way, often through trial and error and learning from others, I learnt more about my materials and techniques.
Each one of the felted pieces shown starts with the silk substrate and the hand-dyed wool roving which is pulled and artistically placed seeing the color and textures coming together with added embellishments to form the final pattern. Then, using soap and water and the fulling process of friction on the wet cloth that begins to cause the opposing fibers to interlock to form the felted textile, which needs further blocking and ironing to create the final form of the scarf.
