MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - OCTOBER 20: Snowflake embroidery holiday cards made by Krupa Paranjape of Mountain View are photographed on Oct. 20, 2020, in Mountain View, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) ...

At the beginning there was amazement: an embroidery machine and an operating system. It felt as if two worlds had collided here - textile design and coding.