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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
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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
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L Going Dotty Tea Cozy = Pressed for Time» The Best Patolders — Evers
Ode to.a Sunflower « Dishtowels a la Frangaise
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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
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titeh Yourself Right Out of the Box ..
Thinking Outside thé Box » Crafty Cards « Sissors Case and Charm +
Embellished espadrilles « Beribboned Pillows
Sources for Supplies
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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