Today author Jamie Brazil joins us
to dish about the other creative passion that she always makes time for...
Author Jamie Brazil
Title: A Stitch in Time…
Not many people
know this about me, but I sew. I love
sewing. Probably because it has to do
with clothes. Another love of mine.
Like many women,
my mother taught me to sew. Sewing, it
seems to me, is part of the whole (old school) Slavic-female culture. Not sewing is not an option. My mother’s mother, Baba, taught her to
sew. There’s sewing history here. I own, and sometimes wear, a 1960s flannel
shirt my Baba made for my Didi (Grandfather).
Somewhere in my mother’s cedar chest is Baba’s silk wedding gown. Home-sewn in 1916.
Is it only
tradition? No.
