Shelia began doing needlework as a young child, learning both from her mother and grandmother.  She says that in those days ready-made patterns were scarce, so often they made their own from catalog and coloring book pages.  Shelia tells a wonderful story of how her Dad was hunting in the backwoods of eastern Kentucky and came on an old abandoned house.  The walls inside the house were papered with old newsprint and catalog pages.  He carefully removed a few of the designs from the walls and took them home to his wife who, Shelia recalls, was tickled to get new patterns.  They then used pieces of carbon paper to trace the designs onto fabric and embroider or cross-stitch them.  Shelia also enjoys quilting and crocheting and says she learned to crochet sitting on the front porch with her Grandma.  Shelia says in those days most every woman in the family did needlework – each with her own specialty so she learned from each of them.  Today she enjoys all types of needlework as well as quilting.  Shelia believes she learned much from growing up when resources were scarce and you used what you had to make your world a more beautiful place.  And she is carrying on that tradition today with her beautiful needlework creations.