About the Artist…
Cathy has been creating all her life. When she was a young mother, she sculpted candles with her husband and three sons. They traveled Texas exhibiting in arts and crafts shows throughout the state. Later she decided to eliminate her candles and began exhibiting her paintings at the Laguna Gloria Art show in Austin, Texas and the Kerrville Texas Arts and Crafts show in Kerrville.
Her paintings have also hung in art galleries in Austin and San Antonio. Eventually, she and her husband opened an art and picture framing gallery in Austin where she also taught classes in watercolors and oils. In 1985 the family moved to Dallas and Cathy gave up her art interests to pursue work in the insurance industry. Upon retirement she became interested in quilting. After making quilts for her family and friends she found she had so many scrap fabrics in her closet that she was perplexed as to what to do with them. While visiting a quilting shop on vacation in Cape Cod, she came across a book demonstrating different ways to use up your scrap fabric.. The author showed how to wrapped cloth clothesline with fabric and then by coiling the creation while sewing with a zig-zag stitch on her sewing machine. This technique created what looked like fabric pottery and when completed it constructed a three-dimensional bowl. Adding two handle from a few loops to both side of the bowl created a basket. Cathy decided this was a good way to use up her scrap fabric. Then Cath-Cox Designs was born. She has been making bowls, baskets, hot-pads and even vases from cloth wrapped clothesline ever since and exhibiting them in crafts fairs all around her home state of Texas.
