A Nantucket Basket
I first learned needle crafts from my mom when I was in elementary school. She had always been crafty with knitting and crochet but a friend had taught her cross stitch and this was far more interesting to me than knitting, I could make a picture with thread. Over the years through EGA and local shop groups we learned many different techniques and gathered a stash that in all honesty we could have used as a starting point for our own shop. When she passed in 2009 I brought home some of her piles of her stash, my aunt was living with her and she still stitched so I tried to take only my favorites. My aunt passed in 2014 so I had to go through it all, even more stash followed me home. Among the 6 large suitcases of charts, fabric and supplies I hauled home were a few of the last projects my mother worked on that I wanted to see through to completion. Despite all the expletives spoken for the choice of stitch she made on the outside, I was finally able to sit down on the 4th o
