 Abbott acquired her own loom and began experimenting with unspun wool and natural dyes and fibres.In 1959, her work was shown in the Auckland City Art Gallery in "An Exhibition of New Zealand Craft Work", alongside artists such as Doreen Blumhardt, Barry Brickell, Len Castle, Helen Mason, Patricia Charlotte Perrin and Mirek Smíšek.In her work Abbott used natural and artificial dyes, and materials ranging from art silk and flax fibre to alkathene piping and burglar alarm tape.