Creme de la Creme winner-Bernina Fashion Show 2001

Creme de la Creme winner of the Bernina Fashion Show 2002

Bernina Fashion Show 2004- Celebrating 25 years of the International Quilt Festival

"In Detail"-A particularly noteworthy honor; to be placed on the back cover of Threads Magazine, usually reserved for extraordinary vintage garments.

Created for the 2006 Bernina Fashion Show, the theme was "Magnifique", French..."Fantasy Flower of the Sun", and inspired by Cirque du Soleil Costumes.

Created for the 2006 Bernina Fashion Show, the theme was "Magnifique", French..."Fantasy Flower of the Sun", and inspired by Cirque du Soleil Costumes.

Top view of hat worn with the Fantasia Fleur du Soleil Bernina Showpiece. It was made using a Chinese Coolie Hat embellished with metal boning, pom-pons, feathers and flowers.

Created for the cover of Sonoma Style magazine 1993 for a feature article "where to get married in Sonoma County", the vineyards at harvest time inspired this non-traditional bride.

Close-up details of the vest, which went on to be included as a focus piece in many other shows and publications over the years.

The vest was added to the vintage lace tutu and a childs' costume created for the theatrical portion of an Obiko Fashion Show at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. The childs garment was purchased from Obiko by Robin Williams wife for her 5 year old daughter Zelda (I hope she still has it!).

This piece began with white silks, shibori-dyed and quilted. Photographed by Sandra Delman in San Jose, CA.

Created in 1989 for the finale Obiko Fashion Show in San Francisco, this piece began as white silk, then was screen-printed in gold, dyed and pleated.

Originally created for the finale of the Obiko Fashion Show at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, this piece went on to be worn by a "real bride" and the look inspired other non-traditional gowns by Kayla over the years.

One of Kaylas' first art-to-wear creations; includes shibori-dyed and textured silks and soft-sculpture roses. This was worn in the theatrical portion of an Obiko Fashion Show at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.

Featured in the Obiko of San Francisco window in Union Square, this garment was hand-dyed by Kayla and commercially pleated by Rusty (who's pleating machines eventually went to a very well known garment manufacture.)

This was the Holiday window at Obiko on Sutter and Jones Street in San Francisco. This garment has gotten a lot of attention over the years.The vest was gifted to Kayla's niece, Ginger, who is a performer with Cirque du Soleil. 

Five K-Bags with pockets created using the Abstract Fabric Collage technique as explained in the sewing pattern and in Kayla's first article in Threads Magazine Issue 94. 

Shibori-dyed, pieced and pin-tucked chiffon jacket, this garment was sold in 1999 to the wife of a very well known high-tech companies' CEO. 

This bag is made using a sewing pattern from Kayla's Collection, the K-bag or originally the Kangaroo-Bag , which is available at www.sewingpatterns.com. The pattern includes complete instructions for the Abstract Fabric Collage technique.

This three-piece outfit started as white silk and was wrapped on a pole with thread and dyed using a traditional Japanese method of dyeing called arashi-shibori. These garments, along with a few thousand similar garments created by Kayla were sold at Obiko and other gallery shops across the country between 1986 and 2000.

Created in the year 2000, this doll was auctioned at the Oregon College of Art and Craft Benefit, it went for $1050. This doll was also in a Figurative Sculpture show at the Santa Fe Weaving Gallery and used on their promotional postcard. Kayla has been making a few dolls a year since 1994.