Newport artist Bailey Schmitt is redecorating her childhood home and a continuing art piece called 306 West Church Street.

She's weaving these memories of her past into the present through the art of crochet.

So join us as we unravel the threads of memory and this week's Arts and Culture, a segment we appropriately call today, Tapestry.

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So I primarily work with yarn, so I'm a fiber artist and so far I've been working a lot on installations of rooms from my childhood home.

I started out as a painter and I was doing a lot of vintage interiors, really focusing on how we exist in an environment.

And I was always interested in ideas of home and, you know, how did I become like this?

And there's all of these different elements to kind of contribute to a person.

And so those are the kinds of ideas that I was focused on when I was making the 306 West Street installation.

And I just decided to start with the kitchen.

I've got big plans to do every room that I possibly can, but I decided to start there.

I primarily use acrylic yarn that's a synthetic fiber with synthetic dyes.

Bugs won't eat it.

It's very color fast.

It's very durable.

And for me, when I suspend things, I need those stitches to kind of bounce back and natural fibers like cotton and wool, they stretch and they stay stretched.

But acrylic kind of bounces back and holds its shape a little bit better.

I went through probably 35 £1 skeins of yarn at least, and I have no idea what the yardage is because you just go through it and you go through it and you go through it.

Knitting is to needles, which is why it's much harder to kind of knit in any direction.

Like with one, you're kind of omnidirectional.

You can go anywhere you want.

Like right here, I could turn around right now and just start crocheting.

This way you can do anything with crochet.

There's so many crochet areas that are making incredible things that you couldn't even fathom how to make that shape.

I don't feel really limited by other aspects of the medium except for the physicality of it, because we kind of picture crochet being a very solitary activity that's like done sitting down.

It's very small, it's a very relaxing activity.

But when you're crocheting for long periods of time, we stretch in order to avoid injury like carpal tunnel or just like repeated stress injuries to certain joints and ligaments.

Traditionally, what you would do is we've every single one of these strands back into the corresponding color so that they become invisible.

But conceptually and visually they kind of serve as a reinforcement of gravity.

As they suspend these pieces, they kind of sag and they kind of yearn for the floor, these strings that are hanging down.

Help them do that.

Fiber arts are kind of behind in the art canon in terms of the hierarchy of what we consider to be valuable.

Historically or culturally.

A lot of that has to do with the idea of it being a hobby or it's women's work and it's a little less, or at least it's perceived to be a little less magical as like painting or drawing where you're like translating an image to something physical.

But fiber arts have come a long way to being recognized in the fine arts community.

I follow so many beautiful fiber artists on Instagram and everyone's making such unique things.

It's really it's just an unstoppable medium.

Unique indeed.

Schmidt's art will be on exhibit around the country as she works to complete more rooms and eventually the entire home.