Tumbling Blocks Needlepoint
Everybody in my mother’s family is an amateur artisan. We have quilters, decorators, huck-weavers, furniture restorers, and more — but the arts-and-crafts gene passed me by.
Fran Mason graduated from Columbia College Chicago where she studied fiction writing and art. She has worked as a copy editor, helpdesk technician, technical writer, CrossFit trainer, and gym owner. She now teaches strength training in her garage, mostly to women over 50, and is writing a memoir of growing up motherless in Chicago in the 1970s. She lives in Seattle with her husband, who endorses all of her bright ideas.
Everybody in my mother’s family is an amateur artisan. We have quilters, decorators, huck-weavers, furniture restorers, and more — but the arts-and-crafts gene passed me by.
Brick houses, courtyard apartments with trees and dirt in the yards, alleys, little grocery stores and bickering neighbors: This was my world, and it was Harriet the Spy’s world, too…. Read More