My Passions
I caught the fashion bug with my first real job at an exclusive dress shop down the street from my mom’s creative arts store. Working there also inspired me to start creating jewelry with vintage beads and baubles I found at thrift stores. It seemed that if I wasn’t making something with my hands, I was designing it in my head.
Although I have many interests and passions, if I had to choose one thing to concentrate on, it would be the fabric arts. As a young girl, working with fabric was where all of the things I loved came together – the making of something very real and complex out of something as simple and abstract as a bolt of fabric; discovering the creativity inside myself and being able to generate revenue out of the things I’m passionate about.
I started my first business in high school, making teddy bears out of vintage fur coats long before the current DIY and recycled art crazes! I sold them in several shops in Kansas City and Phoenix as well as in my mother’s store in West Des Moines. When I graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in art and design, I knew that I wanted to continue my mother’s legacy and help other people to realize their own creative potential. In 1990 at the age of 22, I followed in my mother’s footsteps by founding my own business: Indygo Junction, a fashion and craft pattern publishing company. Since then, it has published hundreds of patterns, allowed me to showcase the work of many talented designers, and with them, inspire thousands of artists and crafters.
In addition to patterns, I have always designed fabric, having created numerous collections for both Moda and Red Rooster – of course, inspired by my collection of vintage images and fabrics.
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