NEA Big Read at PWPL

  Aunt Alice by: Beverly Matherne Aunt Alice chooses a strand of pink floss separates it slowly. She snips a piece puts its tip into her mouth pursing her lips drawing it out priming it for easy passage into the needle’s eye. Aunt Alice shows me how to hold the embroidery hoop in my left hand   drive the needle up from the back with my right pull it through the fabric lifting the thread all the way up then driving the needle down reaching for it from the back and pushing it up again over and over running stitch back stitch chain stitch my little fingers tired my little fingers pricked and pricked again. Aunt Alice shows me how to tongue my little wounds ease the sting stop the blood its smack of salt and iron lets me take a break after each mishap boosts my courage. When Aunt Alice thinks I’m ready she chooses two strands of floss cornflower blue for blossoms forest green for leaves. The petal of a small flower guides my d...