Creative Beading Magazine

You’re Never Too young

PATRICIA’S LIFE LONG love of crafts began many moons ago when she was taught by her mother to sew and knit. After honing these early skills she took up the baton when she had children of her own and did the family’s sewing and knitting, then, when the kids grew she spread her wings, so to speak, and joined some local craft groups.

She spent the early years perfecting her talents on glass work, mosaics and macramé, with which Patricia says she has had two experiences – the first time when it was popular 20 years or so ago and now as it rapidly makes its resurgence!

Early on she also did a porcelain doll making course where an inspirational teacher

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