Karen Applegate

Snips to Stitches

As my father recalls, I firmly declared “I would die without crafts,” and while dramatic, in hindsight, I see an unavoidable predestined future. An enthusiastic wide-eyed child, too young to be running with scissors, but there I was, a scavenger to any crafting material I could get my hands on. In my obsession with textile arts, and to my parent’s disapproval, clothes in their closets had become free and accessible materials to tap into the creative adventurer screaming to be released into the world of design.