I have always had “busy” hands… As a child, teenager, and into adulthood, I would play the piano for hours at a time. Throughout those years, there was also another strong inclination towards the visual arts. I sketched regularly during my childhood, but it wasn’t until I was in my early twenties that I wanted to see where those sketches would take me. My discovery of needlepoint was both accidental and fortuitous. I wanted something that would keep my hands busy during the long Maine winters, but I never imagined that that craft would become a life-consuming passion. It was love at first stitch! I began my journey as many stitchers do, with a kit. By the time I had finished three of those, I knew that I wanted to design my own needlepoint art. The first original piece I created took weeks of sketching and then eight months of stitching. The result was a 36” x 27” adaptation of the Magi based on a mosaic from Ravenna, Italy. At that point, I knew there was no going back.
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