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Judy K.
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Judy Kay Wilson was born in
Atlanta, Georgia in 1945. Even as a small child, she was always
creating and making things. She learned to sew at a very young age
and she also did a lot of drawing. She married and had two children
before the age of twenty. She made practically all of her own
clothes and many things for her house. As she grew into her twenties, her talent grew into intricate needlework. Judy likes to make a wide variety of things. She could just picture in her mind, then create it. In 1982, divorced and own her own again, her older children now basically grown, she began to expand the possibilities. She had one more child, a son to raise, who was now five. Late in 1982, she was in a car wreck that caused severe neck and back trauma. She was out of work for four and half years from it and still suffers the effects of it today. In 1984, she moved to the North Georgia Mountains to Hiawassee, Georgia into a hundred year old house that she could work on. At the same time, Judy began to see pictures in her mind ofribbed baskets - a basket shape popular in that area. Judy developed the basket "as just something to do", but then people began to see them and want to buy them. It was a life saver for her as she had been out of work for two and a half years and barely getting by on worker's compensation. Judy made that same basket, with it's many colors, for twelve years. Toward the ten year mark, Judy's creativity was feeling really stifled making the same basket over and over, just different colors. She began to now "play" with waxed linen threads and developed baskets twined with it. They were small at first, somewhat simple, but she loved making a basket with it. Judy went to Michigan Basket Convention with her ribbed baskets again, but with three different kits of the waxed linen ones and they were an instant hit. She has been weaving with waxed linen since 1994 and it has grown from an idea and the first three kits to her own large web site and about thirty kits. From time to time, older kits are discontinued and new fresh ideas take their place. The kits have gone from a single row of beads to many groups of different beads from the basically simple to the very complex. About 1997, Judy found some silk thread in a needlework shop that was variegated from a hand painted (with dyes) process. That struck an idea in her. She began to coil with the silk and it too has gone from the simple beginning baskets to the very complex and intricate patterns that you see today in her baskets. Judy has always liked small things, intricate things, and she loves creating them. She loves the old Native American Baskets and their old pattern. She likes to figure out how to make the old patterns and create new ones of her own. What started out as "something to do" has turned into a passion and an interesting life for a little girl who use to sit on the floor and make ice cream stick dolls and clothes for them. What started out as "something to do" has kept her busy thinking of what can I create next? |
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