The Carol Duvall Show camera crew visits the Michigan home of Evelyn Sorensen to focus on her original handmade tapestries. Sorensen's first tapestry was created on a whim to fill a space. She wanted to make something original to hang on the wall of her daughter's first apartment. Since then, she has refined her technique into a distinctive brand of artwork. Sorensen creates her tapestries on a frame made of four sticks that can be easily taken apart to remove the tapestry. She then wraps the frame with mohair yarn to create the warp and weft used for weaving. Sorensen is an impomptu artist. She creates most of her designs as she weaves. "Sometimes I have to rip them out several times because they aren't quite right, and put in what develops as the right thing," she says. Occasionally, she'll draw a sketch and place it behind the base so that she has a pattern to work with. Her designs range from Victorian scenes to simple landscapes. Most of the designs are created with embroidery stitches and straight line stitches. When a thread runs out, Sorensen simply ties another onto the end. When the tapestry is completed, she crochets the edges with a smooth yarn.
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