My Background

I've always worked as a seamstress.  I started making quilts as school fundraisers when my kids were little and I got hooked.  For decades I've been working with salvaged materials - in my quilts and in  other business and creative ventures, large and small.    

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic I've been picking up discarded surgical and cloth masks, surgical gloves, and disinfectant wipes off the streets of Oakland and Berkeley, CA.  I launder them and make "quilts" out of them.  

I'm a big fan of scavenging.  There's plenty of possibility in what gets tossed out.  I felt there was a story in the Covid waste I was seeing in the streets.  Sewing people often wonder what they can do with bits of textile - I wanted to make quilts out of pandemic flotsam.