About Me

Anything hand-sewing is what I do.  I work mostly with meditative embroidery, getting lost in the stitches, sometimes not even varying the stitch I'm doing for the entire piece.  I struggle a lot with patience so hand-sewing helps me slow down and be in the moment.  I have a hard time sitting down and just being still, so sewing allows me an excuse to relax on the couch without staring at my phone the whole time.  I also work a lot with sustainability in the textile industry and fiber waste.  For example, I recently made an artists book using only discarded textiles from my personal practice.  I'm still experimenting and trying to find my voice but I'm just trying to teach myself to pause a little bit more.

Born and raised in Upstate New York, I moved to Boston in 2010 for school and never looked back.  Originally studying photography, I found myself lost and looking for something different after being critiqued alongside photographers that were more passionate and frankly, better.   In 2012, I was injured and out of work for a month.  At the time I was an avid knitter but I wasn't getting enough instant gratification out of it, and basically everyone I knew already had 3 scarves from me so it was time to find something new.  My mom has always been a talented hand-quilter and I thought, why not embroidery?  It's inexpensive, fast, it doesn't take up a lot of space and I already have most of the materials from dabbling in it during high school. Since then it's been a love affair with hand sewing of all types, sashiko, cross stitch, crewel, you name it, I was into it.  I started doing markets and trying to get my name out there and eventually got the opportunity to start teaching embroidery classes at a magical place called Gather Here in Cambridge.  Since then I have been teaching classes all across the Boston area from MassArt to MIT and everywhere in between.

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