Since I was very young I’ve always been drawn to textiles — the colors and textures. I started collecting fabric when I was eight years old, mostly unique and imperfect scraps, trims, laces, old tattered quilts and quilt squares; I was a bit of a packrat. Some of my earliest memories growing up incorporate textiles in some way—a red velvet sofa and the pink and brown barkcloth curtains in my grandparents’ house, a rustic loomed woollen rug from the 1800s that my Mom and I found on an antiquing trip. My mom and grandmother were expert seamstresses. I remember just sitting and watching them for hours as they created amazing garments, often from their own patterns.
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