Sleep is a luxury.
We sew it by hand.

My great-great-grandmother taught my great-grandmother.
I am the fifth.

I trained at the Colorado Institute of Art and I have spent more than twenty years in a studio in Endicott, New York, working in velvet, raw silk and rayon-silk brocade — fringe, cording, hand-beaded embroidery. Every piece that leaves here has been through my hands, not a production line.

My work has gone into high-end resorts, spas and boutiques across the United States and overseas. In between, I beat breast cancer. I am still at the machine.

• Fifth-generation seamstress · Colorado Institute of Art
• Soft-sculpture artist, working since 2003
• Every piece cut and sewn in Endicott, New York
• Wholesale accounts with resorts, spas and boutiques worldwide