I have always loved to craft. As a little girl, I happily designed with my Light Bright, Spirograph, and Fashion Plates. A neighborhood friend and I even started our first “craft business” at age ten, selling handmade cards door-to-door.
One Christmas, my grandmother gave me my first cross-stitch kit, and I was instantly hooked on fiber art. I kept stitching and crafting through college, where I originally majored in music before switching to English. (I even constructed an entire Christmas dollhouse in my dorm room; it took a whole semester.)
I’m also a lifelong cat lover. I’ve been lucky to share my life with four wonderful girls: Tiger Lily, my childhood tabby who lived to 21; Drusilla, my loyal black-cat shadow; Daphne, the sweetest girl with partial facial paralysis; and now Violet, my tabby/calico, who seems to carry a little of all three previous cats in her personality.
These days, Stitch and Purr is my cozy corner of the internet: a place for crafts, cats, books, music, photographs, and the small everyday things that make life feel lovely. You’ll find handmade projects here, including my Hooked on Albums project, where each song becomes a square of color and each album becomes a handmade piece, as well as whatever I’m reading, listening to, making, or discovering.
Over the years, I’ve had a craft blog and Etsy shop, been published in several craft magazines, and contributed to an F+W Media compilation book. But this space isn’t about keeping up or turning everything into a business. It’s simply a place to make, share, and enjoy the cozy things.