About

This site is mainly to show my friends and family what I’m up to in the craft zone 🙂 I’m self-, Youtube-, and library-taught, with supplements from some single-day classes and workshops. I started with some introductory hand sewing, moved to hand embroidery, and then onto machine sewing garments, bags, and quilting… and crochet, spinning, and weaving. My favorite part about creation is the designing – I’m an engineer by training and to me, construction sewing is taking something 2D and making it 3D, and quilting is about taking something geometric and rendering it soft. I love the meditative aspect of spinning, and the mathematical and rhythmic joy in weaving. I used to use patterns off Etsy, free from the internet, library books, or Missouri Star Quilt Company, but now primarily design my own projects by expanding from an inspiration I already know.

Some of my inspirations and teachers: