I have always been a fiber person beginning with making my own barbie doll clothes as a child. During high school I made many of my clothes and then minored in home economics at Hood College. I have done some needlepoint and knitting but when I moved to Vermont in 2000 I fell in love with hooked rugs.
I started by taking several classes and workshops with Lucille Festa of American Country Rugs in Rupert VT and then attended several hook-ins throughout New England. I currently hook twice a month with a rug hooking group in Brattleboro VT.
I specialize in primitive style, using wide wool strips and hooking on primitive linen backing. I have recently begun dyeing my own wool, using natural dye sources such as queens ann’s lace, goldenrod, wild blackberries, black walnuts, marigolds and madder root.
I find it is the most forgiving fibre art- no rules, no straight lines, no stitch counting and if you don’t like a wool strip, just pull it out.
