Studio Journal - 08/2025
AUGUST
Moments captured, audios listened to, and books read in & out of the studio in August 2025.
I fell in love in August …
Do you ever have a habit that’s so ingrained in your routine that you forget that it’s a thing? You know, it’s not something that everyone else thinks about or does?
I had forgotten my primary “thing” that leads my creative practice. It’s become so much a part of me that I forget to talk about it or share it with others. I’m so glad that the projects I’ve been working on this month served as huge reminders to me of why I do what I do in the way that I do it.
My creative practice is largely driven by two things:
my desire to have a zero-waste (or as little waste as possible!) studio
and
merge multiple textile techniques to create something totally new
In short, my motto these days is use what you have.
Both knowledge and supplies. Use what you have.
Though the current collection I’m working on, Overwhelm, is primarily an outlet to process through my …well, overwhelm … it has surprisingly served as an avenue for me to fall back in love with textiles and fiber all over again.
The reason that fiber is so intriguing to me is that is can take so many shapes and forms. Join multiple yarns together, wrap them in and around each other, and you’ve created a new, textural landscape. Take rope apart, comb it into fine filaments, and a totally different, shaggy surface emerges.
Fiber is forgiving. It lends itself to multiple transformations. It can be reimagined over and over again.
The textural landscapes I’m creating in Overwhelm has been a massive practice is reimagining what my yarns can do and the many lives they can lead. All the while using up scrap yarns and small bits that other folks would usually throw away.
I’m so grateful for the chance to fall in love again. To be wholly inspired.
May we never lose the ability to be inspired and may we never stop reimagining a brighter, more beautiful future for us all.
