I love the way fabric feels. It's even more fun playing with colors and designs on fabric - printing my own fabric, cutting it, and making fabric puzzles. I learned needlework and sewing from my mother and grandmother. As an undergraduate, I studied the history, chemistry, and art of textiles. My graduate degree led me to employment as Curator of Textiles and Social History. It was interesting working with historic textiles, but frustrating to have to feel them through the museum white gloves.

My husband, Dick, and I left a hectic city and moved to the mountains of North Carolina to simplify our lives. We started our craft business, Fabric Sense, in 2002. The initial goal was to work with fabrics that I enjoyed and produce purses and accessories. Over time the fabric itself became more of a focus than the finished product.

Taking classes at Penland School of Craft opened my eyes to a myriad of surface design techniques. Simple printing led to more complex techniques including deconstructed screen-printing. Now I use the deconstructed printed fabric as a focus of wall hangings and piece them with strips of printed and dyed silk.