While her textile work under The Mending Space began in 2010 as a gentle revolution of redemption, Krista eventually discovered that in mending, as in life, repair isn’t always possible. Chronic illness, deep grief, and bold honesty grounded her in a new wisdom:

Sometimes the most compassionate thing we do is release the threadbare scraps.

Sometimes the most healing thing we do is let the patchwork of pain disintegrate.

And even in the mending space, there is a place for the rending.

Created with equal parts care and abandon, Krista’s third volume of textile art and original poetry sings with quiet confidence and fierce beauty.

To everything, there is a season: a time to mend and a time to pull threads. This is what Krista heard in the rending years, when the thread would not hold.