Here’s Tricia:

I had to get these pictures up on the blog as it just shows the magic of doing this project. Here we see the last day of session 1 after moving back to the Wardrobe department. One of our intrepid stitchers, Carrie, is working away and one of the interpreters marched in to do a little work after her shift in the village. The meeting of the old and new. I didn’t get a picture of her making copies at the Xerox (so funny), but it is always fun when the interpreters walk in and can finally speak in our current century. Being able to share the project back and forth puts you in a bit of a time machine! That is the magic of living history.

Now a bit about our stitchers. The young lady in this picture is Carrie Midura. She runs a business in making historically accurate clothing for re-enactors (www.cherrydawson.com). I found her profession so interesting. Being a professional - Carrie embroidered like a woman on fire and made wonderful progress all week. As a young embroiderer myself, I was really happy to look around the room and find many of the women there in their early 30’s. As we are hoping that this knowledge base won’t die, I was thrilled to find many who were working at a high level of skill and were interested in being involved. Now we have to pass it along to our younger friends.

Tricia