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Dear Web Site Visitors, I would like to tell you where the fiber artist in me came from. My romance with needles and threads started with an old Singer machine when my legs were finally long enough to reach the treadle. I was smitten and never looked back. As a child, I always wanted to make something out of cloth. I was a 4H’er, music student, and avid dreamer. My aunt became my mentor; she was the kind of seamstress that never used a pattern. She made all my clothes and lots of dolls. Living on a farm in rural Minnesota in the fifties, there were no opportunities for any formal training in art and so I went to the big city to study. A timid country girl, I attended the University of Minnesota and majored in related art. We lovingly called it advanced cut and paste, but it was a good introduction to art, design, and hippies. After college, I married a lawyer, moved to Los Angeles, and went on to have four children and many poodles. The needles and threads have followed me through countless school projects and Halloween costumes; if it had to do with a needle, thread, yarn, ribbon, beads, shuttle, hook, punch, singer, elna , bernina, pfaff, I did it. I even taught Japanese handcrafts (visiting Japan has always been inspirational). |
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After all this time, things can still change. The children were grown. The poodles were old. My husband was a successful lawyer. I was making quilts. Then I met David Walker. It was an everyday miracle of life--a happy accident. Overnight, I went from making traditional patchwork to making what I call “fiberscapes.” (collage of cloth and thread put together however you see fit.) With the children out of the house there was room for a studio with an old and new Bernina, Pfaff, and Janome, baskets and drawers filled with all kinds of cloth, threads, paints, dyes, books, cameras, and fun stuff. Today the work continues to evolve and reflect this full and blessed life with bright colors, beautiful cloth, and fabulous threads. My romance with needles and threads continues to enchant…
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