New turnings – timeless design
Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
Traditional darning mushroom to honor my Grandmother Franceska, who was a pioneer farmer in Utah–the source of this cottonwood burl cap. The stem is mesquite – another wood that was unknown to my Slovenian grandparents. They both brought needlework skills to their new life. Grandfather Francis was trained as a tailor, but preferred to try farming. They moved to Denver soon after my mother, their 8th child, was born in 1923. Grandmother continued to sew, darn, make lace, and crochet in the city, passing her skills onto my aunts.