Scarves & stoles are created using exotic yarns, lace, hand dyed silk yarns and ribbons, wool roving, hand dyed silk fabric strips and commercial fabrics all sewn with a variety of threads.  I call them “wayward threads” because of the gypsy like quality that results from the torn fabric strips, the different shrinkage of yarns, and the wool roving that felts.

Process:  yarns and fabrics are laid on a water soluble stablizer fabric, Then a grid is sewn using a sewing machine.  When washed the stablizer dissolves leaving an open weave- like structure.

These wonderfully unique creations are the right touch of pizzazz as an accessory, warmth for a moderately cool evening, or wrapped around the neck for true warmth.

Accessories and garments are painted with dyes by laying the fabric flat on a table and applying the dye onto it with brushes or squirt bottles.  Most designs are abstract.  The fabric is doubled to create a mirror image.  With the moth  wrap I sketched the outline and filled it in with dyes.

Some of the fabrics are simply vat dyed using fiber reactive or acid dyes that I mix to obtain unique colors.  Other fabrics are dyed using the pole wrap "arashi shibori" technique.