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Shakespeare's Peddler

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The history of my site is much more recent. I started this web site as "Theresa Venette's Needlework Home Page" in the fall of 1995 as a hobby. I had noticed a lack of needlework framing information on the Internet, and decided to tell people what I knew. Two years later, I turned the site into a needlework business. And the rest, as they say, is history. I enjoy putting this information together -- much of it comes from readers just like you. And now, like Autolycus, I imagine myself going town-to-town, via the Internet, selling my needlework fineries to good stitchers.




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Description: Shakespeare's Peddler - needlework on the net since 1997
I have been stitching since 1981, when, the Christmas before I turned 12, my mother gave me a needlepoint kit and a surface embroidery kit as a gift. Although my great-grandmother and my grandmother were stitchers, neither had the opportunity to teach me. My great-grandmother, Ethel, was no longer able to stitch by the time I was ready and my grandmother, Carmen, died when I was 10. Still, I feel both of them watching over my shoulder from time-to-time when I'm stitching. My mother does some stitching, and has done a fair amount of machine sewing. My sister stitches, too.

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