My artistic practice has included cross-stitch (and yarn bombing), felting, and embroidery on fabric and paper. I continue to find my imagination sparked by colors, textures, and shapes in found materials including cards, antique prints, and photographs, as well as beads and scraps of ribbon and lace. Minor additions--and sometimes major ones--can change the feeling of an object or bring out its inherent qualities more fully.

This year, I find myself using more embellishments, from sentimental to whimsical, to create mixed media images. I continue to focus on dimensionality, as in the 3-D embroidery of a bunny surrounded by a rainbow wreath, or in Baby, It's Cold Inside, a knitter both rapt in the act of knitting and wrapped by her comically long scarf. In this and other pieces, including the Little Lamb whose body is made from a ball of wool yarn and the embroiderer depicted in Needled, I play with the tension between action and representation. Other work combines text with imagery, as in my Affirmations series. Much of my work this year engages in a dialogue with objects and their original creators with the aim of making something that brings new, or renewed, pleasure to viewers.