Creativity

Most of my talent I attribute to creativity. There is plenty of technical background found in every design I punch, but it’s the creativity that sets the designs apart. The most technically perfect design can be flat, lifeless and void of any “pop”. For this reason, I place as much importance on the development of creative talents as I do technical talents.

I’ve punched designs that were so exciting I jumped around the room as their first sew outs were completed; designs that I was in awe of myself, so beautiful I couldn’t believe I had punched them. As I would look at these first runs I would wonder,” How did you I do that? What was I thinking? This could be my best ever!”

As I look back at those designs, I still don’t know the answers to these questions, but I have come to the conclusion that I enter a zone. A “punch zone”, where my creative mind applies my technical knowledge and the result is a masterpiece in thread.