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My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.