Mom: I thought about my grandmas working some of these pieces by lamplight, before the days of rural electricity, before television or maybe even radio (do you know when they would have gotten a radio?). And I thought how funny, and how achingly precious, that these delicate pieces of domestic history survived and were handed down, and yes, are now on the Internet. And how wonderful that their terribly modern granddaughter, living a life so radically different from theirs, can have this connection to their lives, can see through one narrow window something of who they are, how they lived, what they felt or thought. I sit sometimes and watch my own square little hands working the needles and fancy I can see their hands at work, too.