NEWS:

Just out as 2008 rings in is Scarves on Eight Shafts: A Beaker’s Dozen+ the latest in Interweave Press - Best of Handwoven e-Projects collections, which includes Leslie's Monet Water Lilies Scarf.

Leslie had an article published in the March April 2007 edition of Handwoven featuring an overshot piece called Fiesta Cloth. Breaking with tradition, the cloth has a non overshot look. The zig zag feature of the overshot pattern thread usually hidden by the use of a fuzzy thread stands out in this piece.

 

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Leslie has been weaving and spinning since the mid 70's, her first loom a kit from a Harrisville Design Kit. She is self taught having taken numerous workshops and seminars. Both her biology/botany educational background and her daily computer usage in her job (http://www.pughkilleen.com) find applications in her weaving. The aid of the computer, an invaluable tool, enables her to explore endless design possibilities. Many ideas germinate when enjoying nature. She now works on an eight shaft computer aided loom.

Her work has been published in Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, the publication for the Handweavers Guild of America (HGA), Weavers, Handwoven and the Handwoven Design Collections and most recently in the Best of Handwoven e-Projects collections. She has won awards for her scarves at NEWS, the New England Weaver's Seminar, her HGA Chairish contest entry Convergence 98, her HGA Doll contest entry Convergence 2000, and had her fabric selected to be in the juried HGA Convergence '98 show. In Convergence 2002 Vancover, she had an entry "Sea Shells by the Sea Shore" in the juried exhibit - Textile Tides - Phosporescence. Leslie has taught at Convergence 2004 and 2006. Her fashion collaborations with Regina Schellhaas appeared in the the Convergence Fashion shows, Mobius Mountain Kaleidescope
2004 and Inca Trails 2006.

She has presented talks and seminars at guild meetings and at NEWS. She was active and still a member of the Weavers Guild of Boston, from which she received her Apprentice and Journeyman ratings. The Masters rating is on hold as she spends more time enjoying the joy of not being "perfect". She was the North Carolina HGA Representative, served 3 years on the board of HGA and monitored the HGA Convergence 2000 Cincinnati e-mail account. She is a member of Complex Weavers and facilitated the study group- "Eight Shafts or Less- Make It Complex". She is also a member of the Triangle Weavers in North Carolina and a member of the Cross Country Weavers, a group of recognized weavers that exchange samples once a year.