Because of my background as a painter, the interaction of color has always fascinated me. I have sewed since I was five years old and knew that I could make anything I needed. This concept empowered me to design things just the way I thought they should look. The items that resulted still have a magic quality. The old and new are blended and all of my dreams and visions got sewed right into the articles themselves. I went through a period of designing with brightly colored cotton and embriodery thread. The process was time consuming, but at that time in my life I was spending lots of time sitting in front of one of the three wood stoves in an old farm house in the foothills of the Appalachians.
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