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Fourteen years after I left my position as Needleworker at Colonial Williamsburg to become a librarian, I took a one-day class in tailoring techniques led by former Historic Trades cohort Rick Hill. Intended to showcase the skills needed by the staff of the Costume Design Center, it was a brief return to stitch at a time when I was fully involved with the planning and building of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library.
Here's my professional librarian self looking very busy in the old library just before we moved ...
And here's the building that we moved to ...
One year after the tailoring class, I left my corner office (the lovely ten foot window at the lower left) to become a school librarian. But that's another story.
Looking at the notebook now, I realize how much I had neglected my stitching at the time ...
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By the way, it's important to note these were all tailoring techniques ...
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| Underhand hemstitch |
which can be somewhat different from needlework or embroidery, as in this cross stitch example ...
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Including several pages that we obviously didn't get to in the one short day of the class ...
The last of which is most intriguing: a combination running and back stitch ...
I wonder how I might make use of that ...
