Everything artist Steve MacDonald touches turns to gold. Also known as Ramblin Worker, he uses golden canvas to embroider scenes of imposing skyscrapers, crimson mountain ranges, and wild animals from tigers to track bike riders. Also embroidering cuckoo clocks, skateboards, messenger bags and sound bombing tanks, Steve MacDonald is proving that unlike King Midas, his touch on his vintage Singer sewing machine is anything but a curse.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

I’m an artist and I live and work in San Francisco.

What got you started on the sewing machine?

Sewing was the only thing I didn’t try in art school. But, I discovered it one day at my friend’s house. His name is Tim Clinton, and he gave me my first sewing machine and from that point on, I kept experimenting with it. I used it make little things and also to draw with, which I kept pushing and pushing. Drawing with a sewing machine is a lot like drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch. One of my Etch-a-Sketch drawings.

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