Self- Promotion Month

According to a blogging friend October is Self-promotion month. This sounded like a good idea to me, so I think I will help everyone to get to know me, Traci, personally.


1. Who are you?
That's a deep question that I'm sure I'll spend the rest of my life trying to answer. However, I'll do my best with what I know now.
Professionally I'm a designer of fibers, but I'm also a keeper (and passer) of ancient knowledge. I like to call it "experimental archeology."

2. What is your artistic passion?
I hand select all our materials, allowing me to create one-of-a-kind works. Each piece has been designed to bring out the natural aspects of the fibers and highlight what makes something beautiful. It isn't just the whole item that is beautiful, every single fiber is beautiful. That is why my hand weaving is unique. I don't just have pretty yarn that makes something pretty. I will always take that extra step; pick that perfect skein; or learn that new skill, that will make the work breath-taking beautiful.

3. Why did you get into art?
I wasn't born into it, nor have I been doing it "as long as I can remember" like some will claim. I am self taught. As a teen, my hobby was collecting random skills, many which still serve me today. Fiber was one of those skills that I took to like a fish to water. "One day I woke up and knew how to knit. The next, I woke up and knew how to spin. The next, I wove. Now it's my heart's song and I wouldn't know what to do if it was no longer my life."

4. How do you inspire yourself?
I am a prodigal daughter of the Appalachian Mountains. That quest to "come home" and find my lost heritage is my inspiration. The characteristics of natural fibers and how my technique and skills can display them; that inspires me.

5. Where would you like to see yourself in 5 years.
In five years I want to be supporting my family with my craft, have shows in the US and abroad, and be THE premiere weaver in Kentucky.

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