Like any keen crafter, I have an ever expanding collection
of craft books. Being keen on mixed media, I have an excuse to buy books on a
wide variety of subjects, from macramé to metalwork and everything in between!
But it was a very small booklet that began my lifelong love for crafting.
I had been given my first ever sewing basket
for Christmas, full of sewing notions such as needles, tape measure, pins and
thimble. I begged some scraps of fabric from grandma and she gave me this little
booklet.
Those nimble needles still help me – dear old back stitch and his
friends help to make bead embroidered pieces and I recognised a distant cousin
of buttonhole stitch when I completed the chain on my latest piece.
The tiny
floral pattern I painted on the heart reminded me of those little scraps of flowery fabrics and my first adventures in
needlework.
