“People’s Choice Award” - “Shedhorn Shawl” Oct. 8, 2022 - Farm to Fashion Show, hosted by the Montana Fibershed

Process Video - nuno felting a wild filly

The goal of my designs is to create a showpiece of texture and color, provoking questions and leaving the eyes wondering what they are viewing. My love of fabric began at a young age while watching my mother sew during the long winters on a ranch in McAllister, Montana. It didn’t stop there, as I ended up graduating from The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. I have always been intrigued with extreme textures, colors and different ways fibers can be manipulated. This love has now morphed into the process I learned in 2013 called nuno felting.

I am constantly experimenting with embellishments, fibers, colors, sizes, and my work is ever changing. Each piece takes hours of drafting, agitating and manipulating the fibers, allowing my energy to be infused into every square inch. The base is 100% silk and the fuzzy stuff you see on that is wool! The wool fibers lock into the silk, and it morphs into felt. Each piece of driftwood is carefully sought out by me along the shores of Ennis Lake. I am inspired by Montana, mostly of its mountains and foliage, constantly reminding me of texture and color. I hope you enjoy the end result, a  one-of-a-kind showpiece of texture, color and fiber infused together.