About Me

Alicia Paulson loves to make things. She loves making dresses, garden parties, crocheted dog sweaters, embroidered pillowcases, invitations, and model horse tack. She loves making twig fences, rock borders, tags for her products, photo albums, and cozy guest rooms. She loves cooking dinner for friends, painting chandeliers, and making pretty baby presents. She writes about herself in third person whenever she has to write autobiographical information because she is really quite shy.

In 2000, Alicia left her 9-to-5 job as a book editor and started Posie: Rosy Little Things, a one-woman production studio that designs and creates one-of-a-kind handbags, accessories, crochet-wear, and original gifts. From 2003 through August 2006, she co-owned Ella Posie, a brick-and-mortar boutique showcasing the work of many handmade designers. For most of 2007, she designed, wrote patterns for, and photographed thirty original sewing projects for her first book, STITCHED IN TIME: MEMORY-KEEPING PROJECTS TO SEW AND SHARE FROM THE CREATOR OF POSIE GETS COZY, which was published by Potter Craft in the fall of 2008. She is now at work on her second book with Potter — a collection of embroidery, cross-stitch, and crewelwork patterns inspired by folk art and traditional motifs titled EMBROIDERY COMPANION: CLASSIC DESIGNS FOR MODERN LIVING — to be published in the summer of 2010.

Born and raised in River Forest, Illinois, she now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Nurse of the Year Andy Paulson, R.N.; two cats; the memory of Audrey, the cutest Cardigan Welsh corgi the world has ever known; and puppy Clover Meadow, the second cutest.