| Q&A When & how did you start your sewing?
I started creating wearable arts and quilts in 1996 after I had taken free log cabin quilting class at one of local fabric stores. I learned my sewing techniques making Barbie clothes for my two daughters. I had made 120 doll clothes in a month. How many hours of sewing do you do per day?
Usually I try to sew in the morning and early afternoon before my daughters come home from school because I am almost like a taxi driver in the afternoon for my daughters' volunteer work, piano and violin lessons. What is your favorite techniques to use?
I love to play with 3-dimensional textures on my garments and quilts. I enjoy free-motion threadplay and machine-embroidery. Do you always have complete designs and sketches for your projects?
Maybe just for half of them. For the other half I just follow whatever comes in my head and wait to see what happens---this is more fun to me. Don't you regret quitting your biochemical research job? Not at all. I love to spend my time creating whatever my heart desires. I feel tremendous freedom in this process. I thank God for giving me this opportunity and my family, especially my husband for supporting me 100 %. How many sewing machines do you have?
Now I have 9 sewing machines which I use all the time. When I do my free-motion machine embroidery I thread my machines with different colors and go around them without having to change threads (haha...). What is your next project?
Honestly, I do not know. Could be a garment, a quilt, a bag or a doll. I love to create them all. Below is my doll collection in the laundry room.
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