Why Piney's Needle?

I've been trying to write the story of my heritage of thread and fabric passed down from my mother and my grandmothers.  I'm hoping to have it in a format where I can do some self publishing and sell the story at an event I'll be a part of in May (more details to come at a later date).

I mentioned to my daughter, who does screen printing on T-shirts, that I needed a logo and within minutes, she was sending me this first draft of her idea.

I love it, but I know that some people might not get it.  So here is why I call this place on the internet, my Etsy shop, and my home-based business, Piney's Needle.

Almost 50 years ago, my parents moved their young family to a farm in the Pinewood community of middle Tennessee, about an hour west of Nashville.  The farm is bordered on one side by the Piney River.

Nearly 12 years ago, my husband brought our family back to the Piney, where we built a log house in the field where I once rode horse, cut hay, and worked cows.  I am surrounded by my family, with my childhood home right across the field and both my brothers just down the road from me.

My dream, like my grandmother's and my daughter's, was to have a little shop to sell my creations and teach the techniques to others.  The dream is still there to build a little shop that overlooks the Piney River, to quilt on the porch while I listen to the water flowing by.  Doesn't that sound like a place where you would want to join me?

Piney's Needle was born from those thoughts and dreams.  Like the river cutting through the land in a smooth, effortless, beautiful design, that was how I wanted my stitches to be.  So Piney's Needle I have become.  I still have some work to do to have my work smooth and effortless but I'm getting the beautiful part down just fine.