By Ann Nichols
Staff Writer
Joan Thornbury has been involved with different forms of needle arts since she was 8 years old.
“When I was a child, a woman in my neighborhood invited one of my girlfriends and me to her home frequently and taught us embroidery, knitting and crocheting,” said Thornbury. “Also, women in my family were creative and did needle arts, so I was surrounded by it growing up.”
For more than 20 years, she had a cross-stitch pattern business but has spent the past decade quilting both traditional patterns as well as more contemporary designs.