RustiKate is pretty much just me, and my name is Katy. Formerly a magazine stylist, seamstress, how-to expert, tatting instructor, model, and photographer for MaryJane Butters’ publications (such as “MaryJane’s Farm” magazine, “MaryJane’s Stitching Room”, etc.). These days an author, instructor, and freelance, freestyle, artistic spirit. I have a passion to create, teach, and share. Having grown u
p in the country, in rather a modern pioneer fashion, I freely wandered meadows and forests in pursuit of wildflowers and butterflies. From such a start, imagination, creativity, and appreciation of simple things, comes natural. To this day I marvel at the simplistic complexities, the beauty and textures, of handmade, eco chic, vintage, recycled, refurbished, repurposed, restored, and the rustic. And I see great worth in the unwanted, cast off, and broken. There is much value in creating and recreating, adding little bits of beauty and joy to the world. Through RustiKate, I hope in some small way to encourage, inspire, and motivate you, by what I create and share; that you in turn, can, in your own special way, do the same for others. RustiKate: is a term that refers to retiring to the country, becoming rustic in style, or behavior, to alter, modify, cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.
