The cross-stitch picture I submitted to the Textile Center members’ show was picked to travel to the Carnegie Art Center in Mankato. The Carnegie is a visual arts space lovingly adapted from a turn-of-the-twentieth-century Carnegie library. It was a thrill to have my picture hanging with other work I admire. (Mine is at the far...
Category: Textile Arts
A Common Thread
I have an embroidered picture in Textile Center's member exhibition this year.
Technology, competition and cousins: or, How my grandfather learned to tat
I don’t have any clear memories of my maternal grandfather, who died when I was two. He was born in 1884, grew up in the small town of Paw Paw, Illinois, got a medical degree from Northwestern in 1908 and practiced until the 1950s, when he retired from his position as Medical Director of the...
Jennie, part 2: “She was my ideal”
What came in between the grim look on her face in the picture last time, and this triumphant grin?
From texting gloves to tragedy in high society
In which the cute story I thought I’d tell is quickly reduced to insignificance.