Before the days of TV, internet and other distractions, many women spent time sewing and mending clothing, making lace, cross stitching, embroidering, crocheting, and doing various other needlework. I am lucky to have had a very creative family, that includes tailors, seamstresses and those who knit, crochet, and embroider.

From the time my mom taught me how to sew and my grandfather, a tailor, taught me how to sew the linings of the impeccable suits he made, I have always admired their incredible patience, precision and resourcefulness working with fabrics.