As an illustrator, tapestry weaver and muralist, I have developed a love of color and metaphor. What lacked was purpose. The use of my own sentimental fabrics led to custom requests, most often for inherited fabrics: family quilts, frayed and fragile, a grandmother's clothing, a father's neckties. The memory of some … Read more As an illustrator, tapestry weaver and muralist, I have developed a love of color and metaphor. What lacked was purpose. The use of my own sentimental fabrics led to custom requests, most often for inherited fabrics: family quilts, frayed and fragile, a grandmother's clothing, a father's neckties. The memory of someone dear, or a special event, can be transformed into functional art, and shared with others to whom those items have meaning.
My approach to fabric and thread is akin to watercolor or pastel. The overlapping and juxtaposition of colors is done with a broad variety of repurposed/scrap fabrics and thread colors. A limited number of stitching styles creates a surprising array of possibilities - patterns and density of color. The stitched line can be "drawn." Each bowl is unique. Fabric is fused to a heavy-duty interfacing and stitched through in free form. Fabric nelliBOWLs are reversible, each side with its own color palette.