Hello There
About ME
Middle aged woman (I intend to live a very long time), who has trouble not creating something. I taught myself how to knit by following the how-to in a McCall’s knitting magazine when I was about 10. I had 1 skein of red worsted and a set of aluminum Boye needles (which I think I still have) and I madeloads of blankets for my dollhouse folk. I put it all away and didn’t pick up knitting again until I was 25. At that time, I had embraced counted cross stitch and had found a local shop. This shop also sold knitting supplies and the knitted samples convinced me that I needed more sweaters. How many of us have gravitated towards knitting thinking mistakenly that we would soon have loads of cheaper than store bought garments? The craft pulled me in, the rhythm of the stitches, the comradery of the ladies. I have spent the past 30 years making these simple stitches, increasing and decreasing, swapping one color for another, back and forth or in the round.
Sewing, where did that come from? My mother did not sew. But - In my childhood basement there was an old Singer that had been converted from a treadle to electric, and there was another old treadle Singer in the attic of my grandmother’s house. From an early age, I remember running those old gals- making lines of holes in paper. In junior high (I’m dating myself), we were required to take a home ec rotation each year. Year one was sewing on a button (?), year two was sewing a tote bag. I must have enjoyed this. Then at 15ish, I told my mother to sign me up for 4H, where a lovely lady taught me garment construction. I sewed fairly regularly for a few years- paused for decades, then rediscovered my love for sewing things up about 5 years ago. I have sewn most of the garments that the grands wear and my quilt are getting better every day.
Proficiency in one area, makes me think I can do anything—I also cook, draw (very badly), spin, embroider, garden, raise chickens (new venture!). I read loads and love to travel with my partner in crime for 30 plus years. We have raised 3 boys into (relative)adulthood. And now I’m a grandma too!
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