“Conscious thought was poured into each stage of our process, from the growing, manufacturing, craft, and design.

About My Work
I am a fiber artist and designer guided by the belief that true connection to the land brings not only refuge, but responsibility. My work is a study in fiber, denim, sustainable farming, and the landscapes we call home. Through this process, I explore the threads that bind us to the earth—literal and metaphorical—and what is lost when those connections fray. This project was born from a deep, personal love for the land. It is both an artistic exploration and a call to remember: to see beauty in what grows, weaves, fades, and returns. I believe that when we reconnect with the natural world, we not only find grounding—we find a reason to protect it.

Love the Land all started out in the fields of West Texas on an organic cotton farm, a relationship between a farmer and artist.

The cotton was planted and grew into bursts of cloud-like white puffs in the blinding sun. It was harvested, ginned and baled, then hauled into the back of a pick-up truck and driven to North Carolina where it was then spun and woven into denim. 

With the raw bolts of this denim, founder Jennie Holt, started a small cottage industry made up of talented local Mennoite women. These seasoned seamstresses hold a long history of craft in their hands, sewing skills are passed down matrilineally from grandmother to mother to child. These women still make the majority of their family's clothing and share their knowledge, skills, tricks and artisan secrets with one another in their tight knit community. 

Each piece in the Love the Land collection was lovingly crafted by Anna and Anna, two Mennonite women who see the value in honoring tradition and craft. They took the geometric patterns that Jennie sketched, inspired by the land the cotton fiber is grown on, and from these designs they constructed beautiful heirloom quilts and wearable fiber art. Their hands cut and stitch while their children play around them, subtly and directly absorbing a multigenerational legacy of craft and attention to process. 

Love the land is a study of agricultural landscapes and represents an intersection of design and agriculture. 

Farmers, designers, manufacturers, and consumers are deeply entwined in this culture of creation and in few other realms is it so apparent that our decisions shape our landscapes. Love the Land was built on creating sustainable and environmentally sound practices along every step of the production process. 

Fiber is an extension of agriculture and designers, companies, and consumers all have a responsibility to ensure the health of the planet. One cannot exist without the other in a healthy system. Seeing all parts of the process as circular rather than linear allows us to understand that we sit together at this table and are all connected. Our collective future depends on our ability to create equitable systems that respect the land from which a product is born and honor those who work to produce what we consume .