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Heart Hooked Sisters, Rochester, NY

Heart-hooked Sisters, Lisa Bleier and Michelle Cavalcanti, always start with a story that is either imagined or experienced to create their original hooked designs. Sketching separately but collaborating on the final drawing, they blend their styles and imagery together to ultimately find a shared and balanced voice. Lisa brings her unique whimsy to the women and animals and Michelle adds her love of composition and color They both work on all aspects of the rugs from start to finish Many of the colors are hand-dyed by Michelle but there are other woolens and over-dyed wools integrated as well. They decide where to use needle felting in place of hooking and pass the piece back and forth until completion They are two sisters who feel immensely grateful to be in a partnership full of love, respect, and admiration for what the other brings to tell their stories in wool