This entire  7 x 11 foot tapestry is woven from recycled sweaters, unraveled. Sola worked in almost complete seclusion for 8000 hours over three years in a tiny almost empty apartment  near the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. She is 72 years old, a former concert promoter, beauty queen and is quite eccentric, though very stable in her eccentricities.May 1 she will be on her way to Vancouver to begin an Olympic Tapestry for the winter games.