September 13, 2023
The author first became interested in handwork when she learned that Loara Standish made the first American-made sampler. The Standish family eventually donated it to Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, MA.
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Sewing Together
My mother showed me yarn, insertion of thread into the eye of a metal needle, and a personal handwork-journey was starting