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Sunday, January 5, 2020

4 generations of Makers, and a Tenth Anniversary

January 1, 2020 was the 10th anniversary of my blog!  We finished up a super busy year, then took a few weeks to relax.  Then- Covid!  And things came to a screeching halt.  Here you will find ten years of documentation of projects that came through our workroom.  Things changed a lot in those ten years, but the content of this blog is still relevant to workroom fabrication.  Perhaps it will resume- if not here, then on some other platform, and if it does, it will be announced here.  Meanwhile, I am working, teaching, learning, loving what I do, exploring other avenues of creativity, and trying to keep a handle on what's important!  I hope you are, too. 
I came across this photo.  Guess which one is me?

I have some lace and a quilt that my great-grandmother, Essie, made.  My grandmother, Corinne, an expert sewer, passed on her love of sewing to me.  My mother, Betty Max, could make anything, and was never without a project of some sort.  I absorbed it all and became that 4th generation Maker in this photo.

On my father's side, my grandmother Agnes was a master knitter.  Her daughter, my aunt Doris, is a Maker as well.  She knits, crochets, sews, and does exquisite scrapbooking which eloquently tells our families' stories.
My father was a maker, too.  He loved woodworking, crafting, and building or painting anything.  He and my mother had a ceramics studio for years.  My mom was the crafts director at our beloved Camp Cherith in the Poconos for many years.

I am learning how to pass on my love for making.  It's a slow learning curve, and I have to take it my way.

3 comments:

  1. I love this picture and your story. I look forward to some new blog posts from you!! Happy New Year!!
    Mary D.

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  2. Like you, I also come from a family of Makers. It is an honor to own things they made with their own hands.

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