Gender	Female
Industry	Museums or Libraries
Occupation	retired
Location	Waverly, Kansas, United States
Introduction	My passions are knitting, gardening, my family and restoring the 1903 house where I was raised! I've created a series of blogs to share what I've learned and to document what I've accomplished in knitting and remodeling, with a few digressions (especially about gardening!) along the way.
Interests	Restoring my home; knitting; motorcycle touring; gardening; reading; dog training; writing haiku and fiction. Demonstrating hand crank sewing machines and the pennyfarthing bicycle with my boyfriend.
Favorite movies	True Lies, First Wives Club, McClintock, Going My Way, The Quiet Man, You've Got Mail, various Star Treks and Indiana Jones movies, the list goes on...
Favorite music	Whatever is on the stereo at the moment
Favorite books	Bungalow Style by Treena Crochet, Shop Drawings for Craftsman Interiors by Robert Lang, Anything by Andre Norton

If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?

Clay is a SPECIAL dirt plus water. It's a mud that sticks together very well, can be shaped and fired to make beautiful pots or figures.