How This All Began

My textile art education started early in my life, first learning counted cross-stitch from my mother. Playing with lots of "arts and crafts" through out childhood, I discovered late in elementary school that I loved to work with fabrics. I started sewing clothing, blankets, pillows etc. These things all kept my occupied until I was about 16 and realized that I didn't want to create things that everyone else could create-I did NOT want to work with commercial patterns. I started to play with developing my own designs to stitch, getting great satisfaction from developing designs that no one had ever seen before. In 2002 I became a mom and found I didn't have as much time to design as I had before. With my son's death the following year, I lost the desire to create anything. Blessed with another son late 2004 I again lived as a busy mom, but couldn't help but start missing the art aspect of my life. I completed a trade program in 2005 in Upholstery and Furniture Design which rekindled my love for fibers and fabrics. I accidentally discovered Textile and Fiber Art in September 2008, and what a pleasant discovery it was! To put my love for embroidery and sewing and designing all together (oftentimes with other medium) has been an awesome journey so far, and undoubtedly will be for a long time to come!