Amora76

My grandma taught me to crochet at 5, knit at 6 and she and my mom finally trusted me with a sharp needle and taught me embroidery at 7. I picked up counted cross stitch, crewel and needlepoint along the way. Somewhere about 11 or 12, I learned to tat from Grandma. She told me I could have all her fine thread when I managed to duplicate a motif she had from HER grandma. I did it over the weekend, not so that I could get her thread, but so that ... Read Full Bio »

My grandma taught me to crochet at 5, knit at 6 and she and my mom finally trusted me with a sharp needle and taught me embroidery at 7. I picked up counted cross stitch, crewel and needlepoint along the way. Somewhere about 11 or 12, I learned to tat from Grandma. She told me I could have all her fine thread when I managed to duplicate a motif she had from HER grandma. I did it over the weekend, not so that I could get her thread, but so that she would be able to see (her eyesight was starting to fail). When the Incredible Sweater Machine came down in price I got one of those, then another and another (you can join them to make super long things) and then I started collecting metal bed machines, which led me to collecting lots of fine yarns. I heard you could spin them together to make custom sizes/colors for hand knitting and the larger gauge machines and I was researching alpacas to raise, so I took a spinning class and learned to spin on a wheel. And since I don't like not knowing something about a craft I do, I have learned to spindle spin too. (Still working on different kinds of spindles!) I have taught hand crafts (knit, crochet, needlework) for jr college and BOND classes at JoAnn's at different times.