1. “I made a wedding dress with the same pattern as my mother’s wedding dress!”
“This dress took me forever! After seeing my mom’s wedding dress from the 70s I fell in love with it, but it didn’t fit! My grandma made my mom’s dress (and all the bridesmaids dresses!) from this Mccall’s 4381 pattern. She unfortunately didn’t have the original pattern or the name, but with some internet sleuthing and a whopping $50 I tracked down the pattern off of Etsy!”
2. Some kindness travels in a circle. This one took twelve years to close.
I was a single mother in the hardest year of my life when someone in my ceramics class left a handmade bowl on my station, with “Strong” carved into the base. I used it every morning for twelve years.
Last month, a woman said the empathy in my work reminded her of a bowl she had once left anonymously for a stranger in a class — a bowl with a word in the base that she had made and never seen again.
She had been the one who left it. We stood in the studio looking at each other. The kindness had come all the way back.
3. “Designed and made a puffer jacket for my boyfriend’s dog.”
“We go on lots of hikes and Lola gets cold easily so decided to design her a mini jacket.”
4. “What if not all unicorns are optimistic?”
5. The hands remember what the mind was never told.
After my divorce, I taught myself silversmithing and spent three years making a pendant whose design I couldn’t explain — a shape that felt right without meaning anything I could name.
My daughter wore it to a family gathering. My aunt noticed it, crossed the room, and grabbed my daughter’s hand, leading her to the window for the light. Then she pulled out her own pendant from under her collar and held it next to my daughter’s.
What happened next changed everything… FULL STORY on the next page.
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