I have spent over 40 years working in computer graphics and animation, creating visual work for clients ranging from Hewlett-Packard to the Grateful Dead. My background has always been about understanding structure, perspective, and how things come together in space.

When my daughter got a sewing machine for her 10th birthday, I set out to teach her how to use it. First I had to teach myself. What started as a few pieces of fabric quickly became my first quilt top.

About a year later, I saw a paper piecing pattern in a beautiful sewing shop in Denver. I was struck by how accurate the method was. It made me wonder whether the kind of forms I could create in digital space might be translated into quilts.

I had already been working in 3D software like Maya, and I began experimenting. I wanted to know whether I could create quilt designs as structures in space and then output them into something real and sew-able. I did, and over time I proved the concept in fabric.

For years, I imagined turning that process into a real design pipeline. With the help of new technology, that vision became Z Axis Quilting: a program that lets you generate amazing patterns in minutes, adjust and refine them without starting over, and output a sew-ready pattern at the press of a button.

The geometric forms in Z Axis Quilting are rooted in traditional sewing patterns and familiar quilt structures. That is part of what makes them enjoyable to sew. You can make something simple and continuous, or explore much more intricate results while still staying grounded in a logical construction process.

My goal is to give quilters the same kind of visual freedom I have known in digital design, while keeping the final result practical, precise, and beautiful in fabric.