Lillian Scalzo Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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done very slowly and it's a very tedious job.
not very many people want to do it.
And so you really don't,
Q: Is this like crewelwork and those kinds of things?
A: Yes, those kinds of things.
Q: They are lovely products when they're finished. This is one that
you're working on?
A: This isn't finished.
Q: Well, that's lovely.
A: See what they are?
Q: Yes, I can see that. How did you learn to do those stitches?
A: Well, you have to make up your mind how--you learn these stitches
from books, of course, and practice them up and then you go ahead.
Q: You decided which to use where yourself.
A: Yes, that's right.
. . .
Q: Well, that's very, very pretty. And you've been working on that just
A: Well, when I broke my legs.
Q: Last year.
A: Yes. See, that's the way it goes.
Q: Yes, that is very, very nice.
A: But you use whatever materials you wish. Now a great many people--
hardly anybody uses lace, but I'm very fond of lace and collected a lot
of it. So I use a lot of lace.
Q: How did you collect lace?
A: Well, I don't know. When you go to Salvation Army stores and places
like that. See, this was an old lace collar,
Q: Yes, I can see that there.
A: I had about . . .
Q: Oh, that was the actual collar.
A: That was the actual collar. I had about ten lace collars that I did
but I don't think that I have any of them, I think they're all sold.