I have loved colors and textures my whole life and can spend hours working on mosaics, collages---anything that I can fit colors and shapes together like puzzles. While I come from a long line of Graves colcheras, it was my mom who taught me the colcha stitch and my grandma Sophie Graves who taught her. My mom’s love for painting big, bold flowers gives me inspiration. Many of my colchas contain old pieces of my grandma’s fabric and lots of her yarns, I even use one of her old needles on occasion. This journey has taught me so much about my Carson family roots and the women artisans who came before me. I love making my own mark in Taos art history while keeping true to the traditional colcha stitch! I hope to pass on this gift of colcha to my daughter and other generations to come.
