Janet learned to weave at the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design when she moved to Cape Breton in 1994, and has been teaching weaving there since 2000. A member (and currently president of) the Sydney Handweavers' Guild, she has been the Atlantic Provinces’ representative to the Handweavers' Guild of America since 2000. For the past 10 years Janet has demonstrated her craft at numerous venues across Cape Breton.

Janet indulges her fiber habit by buying many small amounts of fiber in different colors and textures, and has thus developed a style that combines a wide variety of colors and fibers in a single piece. In this way she interprets the traditional craft of weaving in a contemporary way.