I love the tactile quality of threads, fibres and textiles. The potential to use or alter the surface, manipulate, combine, embellish and raise the surface is wide open.
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Inspiration: As children we picked trilliums for Mother’s Day. This piece is in remembrance of my Mom.
Techniques and materials: Hand Embroidery, cotton fabric and threads, wire for shaping
Mounted on canvas: 6 inches x 6 inches
Inspiration: To the Incas, gold was ‘sweat of the sun’ and silver ‘the tears of the moon. The same symbolism applies to Yin/Yang.
Techniques and materials: Paint, hand embroidery, crystal beads.
Framed: 12 inches x 9.5 inches
Inspiration: The arches are used as a sampler with many stitches but needed something else so a floral path was added to the open arch.
Techniques and materials: Hand embroidery.
Framed: 8 inches x 10 inches
Inspiration: One piece of fabric is connected to another in many ways. The type of connection may be functional but also decorative.
Techniques and materials: Hand embroidery, machine sewing. Cotton fabric & threads, beads, buttons, hooks & eyes, and more.
Hung: 25.5 inches x 20 inches
Inspiration: After withdrawing threads from linen, trees were creating by wrapping the vertical threads, adding a variety of dimensional stitches and placed over a silk background.
Techniques and materials: Hand embroidery. Linen & silk fabrics and a variety of threads.
Framed: 11.25 inches x 13.25 inches
Inspiration: A trip into the BC interior with my parents and sister is the inspiration for this piece. The texture was created using needle-lace stitches.
Techniques and materials: Hand embroidery, painted silk fabric.
Framed: 11.25 inches x 9.25 inches
