"Textiles have been important to me, and weaving was just another way to use fibers," explains the Dearborn resident, who now teaches rigid heddle weaving at Michigan Fine Yarns in Livonia.

The yarns vary in weight from a fine sock yarn, Finch, to a lofty Puffin with which one could knit a sweater in an afternoon. “I wanted the yarn to look different, to feel different, to be modern,” ...