Bill Hayden and Anne Elixhauser, together since 1976, but who's counting?

Bill turns the wood.  Anne weaves the cloth.  

Bill is an engineer with a 30-year career at NASA. and Anne retired after 30 years doing health services research.  

They have a son, Ben - a student and photographer - and a wonder-dog, Zeus.

They all live together in a forest where Bill finds the wood he needs for his vessels and Anne gets her inspiration for cloth. Together they are Turn and Weave - arts and crafts in nature.

 Bill has always loved the shapes of natural and designed objects.  The complex curves of a horse's ear, the elegant silhouettes of hawks and airplanes, and the graceful shapes of objects formed in the round - pottery, bowls, and bubbles.  Add the texture, color, and grain structure of wood, and its magic.

Bill's career at NASA was mostly intellectual but something well-engineered is also aesthetic.  In retirement, he wants to reverse that - beauty will be primary but he strives to  master technique.  

He learned woodturning with Mark Supik in Baltimore and since then has experimented on his own to create shapes to share.

Anne taught herself to weave over a holiday weekend in 1994 but had to re-learn several times before she retired and could spend more time at the loom.

She studied Saori weaving with Leslie Sudock in Philadelphia, which opened up a world of creativity and free-form weaving.  She studied with Tom Knisley at Red Stone Glen, which changed her weaving life completely.  

From both of these weavers she learned to love every part of the process, to flow with colors and structure, and to be easy with herself and her tools.

In addition, to weaving, Anne spins and knits because not every idea can be a rectangle.