:: January 2004 
Advice
Capturing Yearly Traditions in Fibre
The winter months provide time for thinking about the family events that make each year meaningful. In this issue's feature, the Scottish tradition of first-footing on New Year's Day is depicted in cross stitch. The young man in the photo is first-footing his family with a tree limb symbolizing warmth throughout the year.
Think about the annual events that mean the most to you and your loved ones. These events may be religious in nature, like attending a community sunrise service at Easter. They may also be recreational, like a trip to the beach or a reunion picnic. They may be things you simply choose to do, like picking peaches and making your own peach preserves just because your grandmother did it before you.
Selecting or designing projects that use fibre to commemorate these occasions can be a particular pleasure for the fibreworker. Not only are you creating fibre items of beauty; you are preserving pieces of your personal history by stitching about events that matter to you.
CyberFibres recommends that you start one fibre project this year that reflects a tradition that has special personal meaning for you