I
am delighted to say that some of my springtime activities will be featured in
the Autumn 2012 issue of Somerset
Memories, scheduled for release on October 1. I am most grateful to Managing Editor, Jana
Holstein, and all the creative individuals at Stampington & Company www.stampington.com for this kind opportunity. Their lovely publications caught
my eye at a bookstore a few years ago, and I have been an avid fan ever
since.
When
Somerset Memories’ challenge, “Think
Outside the Book,” was posted earlier this year, I was intrigued. I was experimenting
with a pincushion design that would utilize some of my family memorabilia. For
the past few years, I had been unearthing various heirlooms, and I was also in
need of a pincushion- one to replace the sad, little imposter I was
utilizing. What emerged during my
process was an assortment of memo pins, memory pockets, sachets, and
pincushions, as well as a distant, revealing view of the women whose lives had
shaped much of my being.
I
included a number of mementoes in my pieces- a sugar bowl that formerly resided
in my parents’ dining room; one of my maternal grandmother’s rosary beads and
her thimble; and some of my fraternal grandmother’s sewing notions. To these I added vintage millinery flowers
and lace and scrapbook and jewelry findings.
The instructions for making some of these simple memory keepers are
included in the upcoming article.
So now when I’m stitching, those far away will
be near. The soulful simplicity they shared with me will be felt, lovingly incorporated
into the fabric of my everyday life.
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