bits and bobbins

tricia royal is a new york city-based freelance artist, designer, and writer who lives with her brilliant, code-wrangling husband peter, infant daughter poppy and two pesky cats in a light-filled downtown loft.

tricia studied art and history at the university of north florida, in jacksonville, and earned her BA there in 2003.

tricia is also a graduate of the parsons the new school for design, where she studied fashion design. she graduated from parsons in may of 2006.

tricia is an avid thrifter, a lover of vintage fashion and homewares, particularly those which hail from the 1960s through to the 1980s.

in her spare time, tricia paints, draws, sews, knits and crochets until her limbs actually ache. she can’t sit still; she’s always making *something*.

tricia’s handiwork and fashion sense is proudly influenced by color theory, musty craft books from the 1970s, and funky grandmothers everywhere. she has an unhealthy obsession with metallic gold, acid wash ceramic teapots, patchwork and the color orange.