About Me

Creative Mind

I loved dressing up when I was little. I would dress up my brothers and sister in carious costumes, tying and pinning them in different ways to create new looks. When I was about 10, I would design dressed by tracing the Disney princess on my school folder. Growing up, I learned how to knit and crochet from a cousin and created some of those dresses through knitting. From experimenting with knitting, ?I learned that I loved the process and intricacies in handwork.

In fifth grade I took a sewing class that taught me how to make a basic skirt and from there I continued to sketch designs that I wanted to try to make.  Being a destructive yet curious child, I liked to take apart my toys to figure out how things worked, and I would do the same with clothes. Each piece that I took apart turned into a challenge that I would eagerly try to solve. I loved trying to figure out the shape of each pattern piece. In each destructive, or rather analytical phase of garment deconstruction, I would use the pieces to make miniature rustic clothes or “wrappings” for my dolls.

In the seventh grade, I learned to tatt (make lace) and loved to add beaded into the tiny knots. Through lacework, I wanted to experiment more and more with lacing and expanded my knowledge into tambour embroidery. In theater, I was always surrounded by beautiful costumes and formal gowns, which allowed me to further my analyzation of the dress pieces. I also experimented with embellishments and lacings in decorative ways to accessorize dresses until I could make dresses of my one for live humans rather than dolls. In high school I started to reverse my habits from tearing clothes to helping mend and alter them. It was not until my first construction course at Bob Jones University that I made my first complete garment for a real person. From there I made several wedding dresses for fellow friends, and classmates and would continue to alter many formal gowns. I love the intricate workings of evening gowns. The detail work in the bodices, the intricate handwork, and engineered structural bases drives me to continue to make more engineered structural bases drives me to continue to make more gowns. In the future, I would love to continue to push myself to learn more of the lost arts like tambour lacing and tatting and incorporate them into the modern designs of evening gowns.