Elizabeth Lay
Posted By Craft Corps on December 9, 2009
Elizabeth Lay
Name: Elizabeth Lay
Age: prime
Location: Orlean, VA
Profession: Textile Artist
Craft(s) of Choice: needlepoint
Blog: http://www.orleanfinetapestry.com
My mother taught me to needlepoint when I was about 10 years old. She had already taught me to knit but there was something about needlepoint; it was like coloring with both hands. I fell in love immediately. There is a tactile joy, a sense of comfort that I have just never gotten from painting. I still get a rush holding hanks of colored yarn in my hands; and it’s a good thing since my passion has become my business. Everything stops when a box of wool is delivered! I can’t wait to open it and sort it into bins of color families. I often stand back and admire the cubbies filled with hues and remember when I once saw a photo of a designer’s studio; it may have been Kaffee Fassett. I was completely captured by the wall units filled with baskets of wool in every imaginable color. I thought; I’ll do just about any job that allows me to have a studio like that! And now, I do.
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