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Personalize Your Home| | | | | Ciao Sarat Projects to ye f Cee Contents Vs Well That Begins Well .... Falling for Fabrics + Picking Up the Threads * Tooling Around » Paper Pattern to Fabric * Beginnings and Cndings * Mastering the Stitches * AA Stitefied Page Marker « Finding Inspiration * Your First Design » Who's Afraid of Color? « Working with Color ilows with Personality Me Pillow Talks Purina Tagther » SapenSimpe Striped Plows Dancing te Polka (De) + Naturally nspred» Quirky Quotes» Sample ‘is! Cross Stitched Gingham Pils» Cross Stith on Windowpane Plaids Striped Dishouel Pillows» etn the Groove Playing with Pras +Poreh Pils = Velvet vgs [yttchen Stitchin’ .... ; f 4107 L Going Dotty Tea Cozy = Pressed for Time» The Best Patolders — Evers Ode to.a Sunflower « Dishtowels a la Frangaise _Hand-Stitehed Haven... .00002..00eeeee eee eee ART Grams Ploweases My Way It’s a Crewe World Blowin’ inthe rind = Biarketed with Love Inthe Lap of Lusury + Welding Rlanket = Hisand Hors Hot Water Botte Cozies ~ 164 titeh Yourself Right Out of the Box .. Thinking Outside thé Box » Crafty Cards « Sissors Case and Charm + Embellished espadrilles « Beribboned Pillows Sources for Supplies fe Came. Acknowledgments sees . roject Patterns and Diagrams . Index . Teome from a family of women — lots of them. Growing up, Tloved it — the female energy, the sharing and caring, and all the projects we made together, ‘mostly done with a needle and thread. There was a long line of needlewomen in both my mother's and father's families. My grandmother Frieda came from Ger- many with her parents in 1910, My grandmother and great-grandmother spent their lives creating things with their hands. They stitched clothes, embroidered pillowcases, crocheted afghans, tatted red, white and blue hankies during World War II, and filled every sofa with beautiful afghans. They weren't alone. All their friends stitched, gathering together ina sewing circle every week for more than 50 years to mend, knit, crochet, embroider, or quilt. My Life in Stitches | grew up in a medium-size town in northern New Jersey ina family of five girls. Around us, farms were still growing fruits and vegetables and animals, A beehive of activity and creativity, the home my mom and dad presided over was ‘unlike many in the town. My four sisters and 1 ‘were always stitching or baking something. We frequently taught our friends how to make the craft of the moment. I sewed all my clothes and proudly wore them to school. I despised going

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