Monica says her art education came from the Contra Costa County Library and from Mrs. Grufman’s 7th and 8th grade art classes at Foothill Middle School in Walnut Creek, California. As a child Monica loved typeface and logos, and would spend hours in the library looking up books with anything and everything that had typeface and logos. In the mind 90’s when Monica’s brother Marco gifted her with Photoshop (2.0!!), Monica dove in to her new toy and has never stopped. Some of Monica’s most recent work can be seen on Sew, Mama, Sew! as well as on her own website/blog, Happy Zombie.
While no longer doing client-side logo work, Monica has shifted her focus to fabric design, and her previous collections were with Lecien Fabrics (Holiday Happy, Happy Mochi Yum Yum and Winterkist). Monica says about her fabric collections, “It’s like the Hair Club For Men… ‘I’m not only the president – I’m a client, too’ “. As for Monica’s self proclaimed addiction to buying fabrics, she claims she’s not a hoarder but rather a curator. Yes, a curator, she insists.
You can see all of Monica’s projects and where she’s in print here and here. Some of Monica’s most well known projects are her Ron Swanson Along, her version of the Farmer’s Wife quilt, her free Poochi Bag pattern and her participation in the Traveling Quilts Bee.
Monica’s says her style is fun, bright, happy with a heaping dash of absurdity – whether it be in fabric design, or illustrations/logs or sewing and quilting projects, and says her style can be summed as, “… so Hello Kitty walks into a tattoo parlor”.
This is so exciting for both of you. Congrats to all. Looking forward to Monica’s new line.
SUPER EXCITING NEWS! Monica is an inspiration and I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!
Woo Hoo! Excellent Choice!! Now Cloud9 will be getting even more of my hard-earned money!
When will her first collection be unveiled? Can’t wait!!
Exciting!
WOW!! How exciting! Can’t wait to see her first collection!
One of my favorite quilters / designers ever! Always makes me laugh. Can’t wait to see her line!
Very excited to see what the uber-talented Monica has in store for us groupies.
I can’t wait to see Monica’s fabric line. I love her color choices and creations. 🙂
Such exciting news! I’m thrilled to know that we will be getting another line from Monica! I love that woman!
So happy to hear that Monica has a new home for designing her lovely fabrics! She’s the funniest person I know ~ love to see what she’s up to!
Oh wow, I can’t wait to see what comes from the new partnership! Zombies, pretty please???
Congrats Mon!
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