Summary
Throughout the ages, women have gathered formally and informally to knit, sew or spin. In the Colonial era they assembled, sometimes by the hundreds, to take part in spinning contests, vying to produce a record number of skeins in a specific amount of time. Women got together at quilting bees to fashion quilts for friends headed west to settle or for those about to be married. They met as members of church societies to knit leper bandages, to crochet blankets for impoverished mothers or to knit for servicemen and -women. But sometimes they got together for the simple pleasure of plying the needle in the agreeable company of other like-minded women, to stitch without a cause.
Such gatherings still take place and women show up at the appointed place to indulge in what they enjoy. So it is from 1 to 3 p.m. each Friday at the Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine. Those who knit, sew, spin, crochet, quilt, tat or do any other type of stitching may stop by during those hours to ply the needle or work with fiber in the company of others engaged in similar activity.See the full content of this document
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At Farm Life Museum, Just Drop in and Stitch
When I sat in on a session a few weeks ago, Sandy Boynton was there with her New Zealand spinning wheel, a low-to-the-floor, portable apparatus made of pale-colored wood. The wheel turned soundlessly as Boynto...
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