It's the Simple Show. You've got episode 85. I'm Tish Lockson Writer, and on the Simple Show,

we talk about books, travel, and life at home. But in this one, we're continuing our special

summer series, where we're departing from our usual topic and diving into something a little

different as we hear from entrepreneurs, artists, and creatives as they let us

peek behind the curtain and learn more about what they do. In this episode, I am talking with

Allison Glass, a fabric and pattern designer. She's a personal friend of mine. I've known her since

the seventh grade. We've lived together for two years in college and we were each other's maids

of honor. You could say we go way back.

Allison, or Allie, as I call her, started fabric designing just a few years ago, but her work has

seriously taken off. It's been so fun for me as a friend to watch her metamorphosis into being

the artist she always was inside and how she's sharing it with the world. Her fabrics are beautiful and if you love color, her aesthetic is just up your alley. I loved this conversation with my old friend. So listen to Allison and get ready to be inspired. Welcome to women's work. So you are one of my oldest friends. I've known you for a long time. I think we've

known each other since we were, what, 12, something like that. And then we were roommates for two

years in college. So we go way back. And that is why I just called you Allie and not Allison,

even though your official formal business name is Allison Glass. Yes. And that's fine. You're allowed to do that.

Yeah. Right. So I'm in the inner circle. I'm allowed to do that. But all right. I am still really

excited to talk to you about this because there's even some things I don't really know. And this is a

good excuse for me to find out because you've had quite a little bit of the journey that I've gotten

to see from behind

the scenes about how you now do what you do. So let's back up and talk about the backstory of how

you began, this work of what you do, which I guess is fabric design or whatever you want to call it.

Yeah, yeah, that's the main, I guess you'd say, focus of the business

is that I am a fabric designer. I do artwork that gets manufactured onto fabric, manufactured in a

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