Linda has been obsessed with fabric since the age of seven. She recalls
that it started with her Grandfather who worked remodeling the old W.T.
Grant stores and brought home sample books, remnants and discarded
bolts of fabric for her to play with. Linda remembers a particularly soft
and fascinating gray velvet remnant, which she used to make a dress
from a pattern she designed for a doll. She continued to quilt and to sew
as she grew up and later as she made clothes for herself and for her three
children. She never lost her love for fabric and continued to collect it,
buying it on sale in fabric stores and collecting wool and colorful prints
by the bag full at rummage sales that she would cut up and store for
future use.
After a hiatus as a single mom and business college student at Kent
State University and a career as a marketing and human resource
professional, Linda finally found time to pursue more artistic endeavors
and began doing stamping, woodcrafts and painting. Linda started
making purses out of necessity, wanting a small purse she could carry
over her shoulder. Yearning for more creative work and realizing a need
that others may share, she started making fancier, more elaborate purses
from pieces out of her fabric collection. With the addition of printed
fabric images, found objects and frilly yarns each purse became a
unique, one-of-a-kind composition combining both art and handcrafted
work.
Linda has presented in area arts and crafts shows and several juried shows
in Northeast Ohio. She has recently been featured in the Akron Beacon
Journal as one of HGTV’s crafters and also individually as one of Akron’
s unique local artistic talents. She appearred on HGTV’s Crafters Coast
to Coast program with her fabric art purses in the late Spring of 2005.
Linda will have two purses in the spring 08 issue of Haute Handbags.
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