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I was brought up to reuse things.

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

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 like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.