Billie Jo’s inspiration comes from the immediate world around her: the landscape and the relationships within it. She often starts with photography, sketching, playing with fibres and yarns. She then moves to her floor loom, often sampling in large shawl sizes. This results in limited edition shawls that will not be repeated. The process of sampling is often intuitive, as the interplay of yarn and colour is consistently inspiring and can push an idea in unplanned directions. It is a process of meditation in making, the loom an extension of the weaver as they add colour and texture to the growing cloth.