Diana Watters Handmade

As a professionally trained interior designer, Diana Watters spends her days designing metal art pieces for a boutique metal fabrication company in Toronto. Her “5-9 job” (in her words), however, is the wonderful world of cross-stitching, one that she discovered a few years ago when her sister gifted her a cross-stitch kit.

“I longed for the satisfaction of using my hands to create something of my own,” she says, and rekindled this passion that she had only previously enjoyed while in design school.

"Needless to say, I was hooked! While I loved practising with other people's patterns, I couldn't always find the modern content I was looking for. Making my own patterns has been great because the sky is the limit in terms of ideas. My ideas come traditional ethnic textiles, graffiti, travelling, nature... you name it!"