Art
Julia Ann Fitch embroidered this sampler as a young girl—a common practice that taught needle skills, patience, and proper behavior. Samplers were both practical learning tools and proud displays of a girl's education and refinement.
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Your fingers are pricked and sore. The silk thread catches on itself again. You pull it back, counting stitches, making sure the letters sit perfectly straight. Your mother watches. This linen rectangle will hang in the parlor someday—proof that you can sew, that you know your alphabet, that you are becoming a proper woman.
Reflect
What skill or craft did someone teach you carefully, stitch by stitch, when you were young?