Getting Started

I love needlework. There. I've said it. I don't care if it is embroidery (redwork, whitework, blackwork, bluework, etc.), crocheting, knitting, quilting, beading, lacemaking, whatever -- I love needlework. Not only do I collect needlework and patterns (yes, I have a horrible case of PAS -- Pattern Acquisition Syndrome!) but I also produce it myself.

I come from a long line of needleworkers -- on both sides of my family. All our womenfolk sew. My mom and a great-aunt taught me how to embroider when I was a child. Mom and her sisters did needlepoint. Mom's oldest sister and my grandmother knitted for years. Many of my great-aunts and g-great-aunts crocheted. Several of my 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-cousins quilted.

To a greater or lesser extent, I also sew, embroider, needlepoint, knit, crochet, and quilt. I've also been known to do a little lacemaking or dollmaking but I mainly prefer to crochet or embroider. I like the portability of the craft since I never know where I'm going to be or how long I'm going to be there (teaching school, attending school, doctor's offices, waiting on hubby, etc.).

I'm hoping to use this blog to encourage myself to not only finish some of those UFOs (unfinished objects) but to get some of those nagging WIMs (works-in-mind) into reality!