"Why do you call your creations "sewn drawings"?

Because the industrial zig-zag sewing machine I draw with has only one stitch, a mechanized version of an artist's scribble, which can scumble or lay in solid color or thin into a line; because I have drawn all my life in a great variety of media, and now that I'm drawing with a sewing machine, there's no reason to call it anything else; and because drawing/sewing is the primary transformative agent that over days and weeks turns scraps of patterned fabric into works of art."
-- China Marks, artist's website