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  • Girl without fingers learns to cross stitch

    11/04/2011 4:18:24 PM PDT · by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis · 6 replies
    Telegraph ^ | Nov. 4, 2011
    Peng Jiangya, 24, lost all her fingers when she fell into a blazing fire stove at home while her parents were out. The family was too poor at the time to afford the expensive surgery necessary to reconstruct her hand. Ms Peng lives in a village of the Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County at the foot of the Fanjing Mountains on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. "When I was a child, I was unable to hold chopsticks. My parents taught me for a long time. It was really difficult, but I overcame it. It dawned on me that one has to...
  • Vast Right Wing Knitting and Needleworker's Circle: Twas three days before Christmas...

    12/22/2005 6:34:12 AM PST · by Knitting A Conundrum · 15 replies · 307+ views
    12/22.05 | Knitting a Conundrum
    The Vast Right Wing Knitting and Needleworker's Circle 'Twas three days before Christmas, and all through the house, The panic was starting, and even the mouse Knew better than stand near the kitchen and stare, And away from the sewing room -don't even go there. The projects to finish, the work left to do, The presents to wrap, and more cooking, too As aunties and uncles, grandmas and pas and nieces and nephews expect Santa Claus, And husbands lay low, lest they get in the way, and children don't need an excuse to go play, On cookies, on bread dough,...
  • Knitters and Needleworkers of Free Republic, Unite! (a vain vanity)

    10/12/2005 6:35:50 AM PDT · by Knitting A Conundrum · 222 replies · 1,477+ views
    Knitting a Conundrum
    Ok, come out of the woodwork. We know you are out there, doing needlework at your computer terminal. Knitters, cross stitchers, crocheters and others. What's your craft? Wanna share? Want to form an online knitting circle or whatever?