:: November 2002 
Advice
Your Personal Fibre Response to the September 11 Attacks on the USA
A response in fiber to national tragedy serves many purposes. First, it can bring solace and a sense of purpose to the fibre worker who creates it. Fibre artist Susan Coughlin's husband ‘s cousin was killed in the World Trade Center attack (see Feature). Second, it can inspire others who see it or touch it. Third, it can remind people in the future of the sentiments we are experiencing at this apprehensive time.
Use fibre to create something of beauty and significance to mark this time in your life and in the life of our nation, indeed, of the world. The cross stitched eagle pictured above is an adaptation of the design, "On Eagle's Wings" in the cross stitch pattern booklet, "Nature's Notebook" (© 1990) from Cross My Heart, Inc., 4725 Commercial Drive, Huntsville, AL 35816 . Between the eagle motif and the verse, I inserted the words: In Memoriam ‚Äì September 11, 2001. The pattern may also be worked in needlepoint.
As a special Christmas gift, you may decide to use fibre to make a tree ornament in red, white and blue. As a long-range fiber goal, you may select a more extensive project and work on it in the weeks and months that lie ahead in the war on terrorism (see Review