Meet the Maker

Hello. I’m Tracie, the maker behind Custom Threadwork.

Every piece you see here is designed, stitched, and finished by me in my home studio in Colorado.

I’ve been creating for as long as I can remember. As a little girl I learned to sew, knit, and hand embroider from my mom, and crochet from my grandmother. At that time, sewing was my passion and I wanted to learn everything I could from my Mom. My mom had a keen eye for detail and expected my seams to be straight and my zippers invisible — even if it meant ripping stitches out in places no one would ever see.

I didn’t appreciate it then… but I do now. Those lessons stayed with me. They taught me patience, care, and pride in doing something well, even if no one would see it. Today I hold my own work to those same standards.

Life doesn’t always follow the path we expect, does it?  Several years ago I walked through a season that changed everything in my life. It was a dark time, and for a quite some time, I could do little more than place one foot in front of the other- everything lost meaning.  What slowly brought me back was my faith, and my family. Eventually, the desire to create slowly returned. 

At first I stitched small things for friends and family. But with each piece, purpose returned. Creating became more than a hobby, it became healing. Last year I embroidered over 400 personalized bunnies! What looked like a simple stuffed animal became something more, it was a memory. An Easter gift for a special child, gifts for other occasions - baptisms, birthdays, baby showers, and during difficult moments when a child needed comfort. Many parents told me their child slept with their bunny every night. 

Today my work centers around meaningful, personalized keepsakes — items created intentionally for one specific person, not mass-produced. I am currently working on a new line of faith-inspired apparel and gifts designed to quietly encourage and uplift the person wearing or receiving them.

Inside my studio you’ll find sewing machines humming, embroidery machines stitching names one letter at a time, and me — usually with a cup of coffee, and my canine companions, carefully working on orders and looking forward to the next.

 Thank you for being here and for supporting handmade work. It truly means more than you know.