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Emily Walker |
About MeI started sewing at age nine. While visiting my grandparents, my grandmother helped me make a doll-sized nine-patch quilt. After that I progressed steadily to creating my own quilt blocks and making pillows, to making myself a daisy-print dress with my mother's careful supervision. I went on to make more dresses, skirts, blouses, vests, and, as a teenager, suits for high school debate competitions and Civil War era hoopskirt dresses for Christmas caroling around my historical neighborhood. It seemed like a new dress or sewing project was always in the works. My dad bought me a state-of-the-art computerized sewing machine one Christmas and after that I was set. Growing older and more mature put projects like daisy-print dresses aside, but made room for further development in the art of sewing. I made curtains for my bedroom, learned how to knit, and embroidered items for my "hope chest." I also made several bridesmaid dresses for friends' weddings, and used the lessons from the alterations class I took during my 4-H club days. When my high school sweetheart proposed to me, the next project loomed: my wedding dress. I poured over pattern books for hours in the fabric store and looked through the special occasion fabric carefully. I ended up combining several different views in a pattern to make an almost-Renaissance style gown, complete with a long train and veil. I also added ribbon embroidery detailing with a small blue butterfly as my "something blue." This dress made my wedding day unbelievably special. Now as a mommy of eleven-month-old Elijah, I work from home as a seamstress and clothing designer, hoping to create for others the wonderful experience I had growing up - living daily in tailor-made custom clothing for all of life's occasions.
Me with husband and baby, summer 2007.
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Copyright © 2007 Emily Walker Costume Design and Alterations
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