Wendy Buchanan wrote in a message to Joan Kelly:
 WB> None of my immediate family likes to craft as much as I do,
 WB> though Mom loves to sew and is making her double wedding ring
 WB> quilt.  But I did get my crafting genes from a family member, my
 WB> Aunt Shirley.  She's very talented.  She's crocheted at 
 WB> least one of everything that's crochetable, knitted sweaters till
 WB> you'd think yarn would come out both of her ears, and
 WB> done all kinds of x-xtitch projects and stuff.  She's not as much
 WB> into scrapcraft as I am though.  I love to use old 
 WB> wallpaper samples and see what I can come up with, or take a bleach
 WB> bottle or 2-liter pop bottle and make something out 
 WB> of it.  Shirley's into what I would call "more formal crafts." She
 WB> prefers to buy her pattern and materials and then make
 WB> something.  
I'm not much on making things from milk bottles, etc.--not enough 
imagination--and I envy people who see the utility in everyday things.  I 
have to buy patterns.  :(
 WB> My sister isn't crafty at all, but she sure loves the handmade
 WB> dishcloths I crocheted her.  She likes things simple so I just made
 WB> her off-white ones with a band of one single other color on each
 WB> end.  The fancy ones I saved for Mom and for Tom's sis, who both
 WB> love the lacy old-fashioned looking things.
It's good she appreciates your talents!  I don't know what happened to Eileen 
(my sister).  She liked to sew and everything at one time, and made several 
suits for herself.  Nowadays, she does some crocheting, but not very often.  
When she appeared interested in the Mile-A-Minute afghans, I *bought* her the 
leaflet!  :-)  Don't think she's done anything with it yet, though.  She and 
her boyfriend love to do the ballroom dancing, though they don't go for 
medals and competitions, they have both studied Arthur Miller.  He's got real 
problems, I think maybe fibromyalgia, but has never been diagnosed.  He is in 
constant pain, arthritis-like, for quite a number of years, with no relief.
 WB> Fortunately I can do this because I sure couldn't afford to
 WB> buy many presents the past few years!  But I understand what you
 WB> mean about your sister.  Good thing she apologized, if
 WB> what she said was so awful it could have split up your whole
 WB> family!  
Everything is back to what passes for normal around here, thank goodness.  :)
 
WB> LadyBear Hugs,
Hugggies to you too!
Joan
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