C4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 10,1981
Cross-stitch is fun
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making bobbin lace. “It’s not something your next door
neighbor is likely to do. I like things that are challenging
and I like to create very slowly ”
With three small children, it’s easy to see that Mary
Alice's tune to work on needlework is limited. She often
does it in the evenings and occasionally sits down to it
during the day. The Fyocks have two boys, Michael, 10
weeks, and Dean, 2. Them daughter Amy is seven and she
seems to have taken an interest in her mother’s work and
has inherited some of the ability. Mary Alice states, “She
seems to have pretty good ability and desire and can
accomplish it with minimum effort.”
She is quick to note tht not all children have the interest
Amy is the one who sews on buttons in the Fyock family,
but when Mary Alice recently went to Amy’s second grade
Mass to teach how to sew on buttons she quickly learned
that some are not so adapt with their fingers. “It was an
eye-opener,” she laughs.
A former home economics teacher, Mary Alice enjoys
teaching and has taught her Farm Women Society
members some needlework. She just completed two years
as president of Society 1 which she joined at the invitation
of David’s grandmother, Mrs. Martin Moore.
The Fyocks live on the farm where Mrs. Moore was
raised and she lives in half the farm house. There are
about 40 acres of woodland, and the rest is used to grow
grams. They also raise some cattle
Like many homemakers, Mary Alice does most of her
needlework in the winter months because in the summer
she is buSy with a vegetable garden and with flowers. She
also does a lot of sewing and likes to incorporate
needlework into clothing whenever she can.
In addition, she finds time to play volleyball and team
tennis. “That is my tune to get out,” she says.
How should anyone who’s interested in needlework go
about learning? Mary Alice says, “You can really buy a
book and teach yourself. With cross-stitch you must just
be sure you take your stitches in the same direction. It is a
more restrictive needle art. You can also have a friend
show you how, or you can join the Embroiderer’s Guild.”
Mary Alice pointed out that the Guild has two groups, an
afternoon and an evening one, and members can attend
any program sponsored by either group. It is a national
organization, headquartered in New York City, and the
local chapter has about 50 daytime members and about 80
nigh time members. Anyone interested in joining can call
either president: Anne Booske, 392-0910, or Doris Johnson,
626-7992.
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In 1917, the Pennsylvania
Farm Show was initiated as
an educational event for
farmers of that tune.
And over the years that
we’ve been mvolved as
spectators and exhibitors,
it’s certainly been a time of
education for this farm wife
For instance, on a trip
preparing for a Farm Show
visit back in the early ’6o’s, I
learned just how far snow
would fly up over the hood
and roof of a ‘54 Chevy when
it clipped a little snowback
along the road
I’ve learned that the
chances of finding a parking
spot in the exhibitor’s lot will
dunish m relationship to the
It is a great way to share resources and ideas and to get
to see what some really creative people are doing. We are
looking over their shoulders and we have ‘hands on’
workshops which are very helpful,” Mary Alice explains.
Although she hasn’t exhibited at the state Farm Show,
Mary Alice frequently enters needlework at the Manheim
Farm Show and the Ephrata Fair. In the past few years
she had done very well, but she says modestly, “There
isn’t very stiff competition.”
She adds, “It’s iun and I enjoy going and seeing what’s
being done.”
Because of her intense interest, Mary Alice is creating
many fine “heritage pieces” for her family and friends
and is enjoymg every minute of the tune it takes to make
them perfect
On being
a farm wife
-And other
hazards
Joyce Bupp
failing wind chill index and
depth of the layer of ice on
the blacktop
I’ve learned to love french
fried mushrooms and have
discovered where every fast
food stop is located between
home and Cameron Street.
I’ve learned that scrub
bing heifers in a crowded
and drafty washroom in
January is not the enjoyable
task it seems to be under a
shining, warm August sun.
I’ve learned that by
Wednesday of this week, the
practical-joker exhibitors in
the livestock barns will be
just reaching their full
stride
I’ve met and learned to
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know better many wonderful
people involved in
agriculture across our
Commonwealth, the best
part of the whole idea of
Farm Show participation.
And this year well, I’ve
already learned something
through this year’s show
and it doesn’t even start until
today
I learned what happened
to one good pair of children’s
jeans that mysteriously had
disappeared
While I was tidying the
kitchen after supper one
evening this past week, our
eldest 4-H’er plunked onto
the freshly-cleaned counter
a pair of wrinkled, filthy
denims, flattened pair of old
shoes and balied-up, dirty
spotted T-shirt
"I found my jeans'” an
nounced the 4-H’er. “Guess
where they were 9 Still in my
cow show feed tub that I took
to state dairy roundup.”
State dairy roundup, let
me interject, was held late
September.
“Yuk 1 They smell awful
throw them in the
basement! ” I bellowed
Something tells me this
isn’t quite what the Farm
Show founders had in mind
when they foresaw
educational possibilities of
our annual January
agriculture exposition.
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