I started sewing on paper after seeing Maria Neary's work during the 1997 OpenStudio tour in Boulder. I had just finished a class in tailoring at the Bernina Center, and being overwhelmed with pinning sleeves into shoulders; learning to sew the intricacies of button plackets and collars, I wanted to go as flat as possible. I used my own photographs; specialty papers; ribbons; and silk flowers. With this body of work I was accepted as a participating artist in the 2000 and 2001 OpenStudios tour. Many of the peices are now in private collections.