Design Influences

Lace Making
Lace is a decorative openwork fabric created from twisted or braided threads. Often highly intricate, handmade lace falls into two main categories: needle lace, worked with a single thread and a needle, and bobbin lace, formed by braiding and twisting multiple threads wound on bobbins and anchored to a pillow.
Needle lace evolved from earlier embroidery techniques, such as picot edging, openwork seaming, and cutwork, where fabric was cut away to create intricate designs. Because large cutwork areas wasted expensive fabric, makers began couching threads onto a temporary backing—a process that evolved into true needle lace. Bobbin lace developed somewhat later, in 16th-century Italy, from braid making, and it quickly became a faster and more affordable alternative to needle lace.
Lace, a decorative openwork web, was first developed in Europe during the sixteenth century. Two distinct types of lace making—needle lace and bobbin lace—began simultaneously. Needle lace is made with a single needle and thread, while bobbin lace entails the plaiting of many threads.

Patchworks Quilts
Patchwork quilts use arranged squares to form an entire quilt. Geometric designs were the most efficient way to aggregate fabric into useful units.

Originally, this was to make full use of leftover scraps of fabric, but now fabric is often bought specially for a specific design.

the block-style patchwork quilt became a "distinct expression" of nineteenth-century America,[4] evolving into a representative folk art of interest to scholars

Kitchen Cabinets
The concept for this light grew from an idea to create miniature kitchen cabinets. The final form of both the box and face was inspired by the wall-mounted cabinets in my parents' kitchen.