Glorious Garden

Once a month, textile designer Sina Pearson travels cross-country to tend her flourishing garden on an island near Seattle

Written by Susan Heeger • Photographed by John Granen

Textile designer Sina Pearson is famous for the kicky stripes and vivid patterns of her fabrics, and she tends to name them after things she loves -- Northwest woodlands, ferns, high tide. Their moods and colors ripple through her life, which she spends not just in New York City, where she heads a design firm that bears her name, but also on Fidalgo Island, 80 miles north of Seattle. There, overlooking Skagit Bay, she takes a week each month to tend a passion that feeds her work: a lush garden in a forest.

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