This paper presents my project of working with an inherited collection of textile materials. It also presents the links my work has to aspects of Femmage, the term coined by artists Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer in the 1978 article Waste Not Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled-Femmage. Working with this textile tradition I explore ways in which to develop my own visual language, where intuition, play and rhythm are key methods and collage, appliqué and print are the main techniques.