Hello, let me introduce myself. My name is Lucille Baker and I live in central Illinois.

 

But I got ahead of myself.

 

Let me go back to my early years, where my love for sewing and creating began. At about age 3, I had already begun to 'hang out' in the sewing room…..my mother's sewing room, picking up straight pins that had fallen on the floor. By age 5 I had started using those pins to learn to pin pattern pieces and make my own doll clothes, all hand stitched. Learning to knit and crochet around age 8.

Then at age 9 I had progressed to the sewing machine, a Singer treadle machine...