Can you share a bit about your artistic journey and what inspires your work?  What made you start working with felt? When did you start working with felt?

Growing up in Hungary, I explored many fiber arts from an early age. I found joy figuring out how to weave, knit, sew, bead, make lace, etc., without any guidance, just playing with the materials. First I encountered felting as a teenager. My first project was an epic failure, and I was so disappointed, I never wanted to work with wool again.

In college I studied folk arts, and later I worked in museums. However, I was always more interested in creating with my hands than analyzing artifacts.

When I was in my mid-twenties, I was asked to teach children how to felt. I sat down with a friend and a book and learnt the basics of the craft. The fibers we had access to were quite coarse and very limited in colors. It was still not something to touch my heart. But a few weeks after this event I encountered the combination of soft merino wool, fine silks and deep hand-dyed colors. Once I met these high quality fine materials and understood the potential of the felting technique - which is basically limitless -, was super inspiring. This was the moment when I fell in love with felting, and I gave up pursuing other crafts.

In the first part of my career I mostly created wearable art, hats, scarves and garments. In recent years I became more interested in creating large dimensional felted wall art.

Do you have any upcoming projects or works in progress that you'd like to share with our community? This could be what other things do you like to make with felt? What other mediums have you worked with? What's next for you?

My work is seasonal - the winter months are my creative time when I develop new projects. I enjoy developing technically challenging pieces like seamlessly felted fitted garments, small detailed felted jewelry or seamless, functional bags with many pockets.

When spring comes I start traveling: I teach internationally and online and I organize and lead Felt Tours in Hungary annually.

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An old school building in Belltown is starting to feel young again thanks to a recent face lift. The 1942-constructed Labor Temple — once owned + operated by the city’s labor unions — has been restored as a co-working hub. It will receive the 2023 Best Preservation Project Award from Historic Seattle on Thursday, Sept. 28.

Historic Seattle recently announced the five winners of its 2023 Preservation Award's program.

These annual awards, now in their 14th year, honor people, projects and project teams from across Seattle that exemplify the non-profits mission to “save meaningful places to foster lively communities.”

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One word can convey a lot. “Temple,” for instance, summons a lofty image: a cathedral, chapel or place of worship. So it makes sense that when America’s passionate labor movement arose in the late 1800s, those who conceived centers for workers to support each other seized the term as their own.

One word can convey a lot. “Temple,” for instance, summons a lofty image: a cathedral, chapel or place of worship. So it makes sense that when America’s passionate labor movement arose in the late 1800s, those who conceived centers for workers to support each other seized the term as their own.

The Seattle Labor Temple, a historic landmark built in 1942 with an art deco facade, that was formerly home to labor union offices, has re-opened as a boutique office building.

Two years after the landmarked Seattle Labor Temple went on the market, as the DJC first reported, local company Faul announced it will buy the half-block property in Belltown. King County hasn't yet recorded a sale for the two- and three-story building at 2800 First Ave.

Throughout the first anxious year of World War Two, the local Federation of Labor Unions completed the construction of their new Labor Temple at the northeast corner of First Avenue and Clay Street, and in the fall of 1942 the member unions – nearly 50 of them – moved to it from their old quarters here at 6th Avenue and University Street.