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This is a 7-10 minute read. The term “standing wool” is one that had never crossed my radar until 2021. Little did I know, I’d been doing work that...

Artist Statement The Microcosm Collection creates small, self contained portals: tiny but finely-detailed moments that transport the viewer and spe...

In the past eight years I’ve run six half marathons, a ten miler, eight 10ks, six 8ks, a Spartan Race, more 5ks than I can count, and one “Tough Tu...

We moved from Charlotte, NC to Portland, OR at the beginning of March 2020. Right after we moved, everything shut down because of the Coronavirus p...

I feel like "changed my life" is always such a big claim to make, and it can make me a little skeptical because I wonder if those changes were easy...

I moved into a new studio space this month! While planning the layout of my new workspace, one issue I ran into was that my ironing board didn’t ha...

...a microwave! This year I knew I wanted to take some time to try some new things in the studio - one of the first on my list was dyeing my own ya...

Today I was named one of the 2019 20 On The Rise by Honeybook and The Rising Tide Society. A few weeks ago, they sent over a questionnaire asking m...

Shifting how I think about what I am doing Sometime in early January, I declared 2019 “the year Amy finally asks for what she wants.” This has bee...

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Reflecting on an embroidery project that I have recently started in which I am finished what my grandmother started many years ago.

In 2018, I chose not to purchase any new clothes for the majority of the year. This process allowed me to assess what I owned, wear things I had forgotten about, and purge clothes from my closet that were just taking up space.