Alice Le Duc, of the prominent Hastings family, once wrote to a friend: "We embroidered dragons — a great many dragons and people seemed to like them and also flowers that had never bloomed anywhere, ...

Kristin Nicholas knits. She embroiders, paints, designs knitwear for magazines and decorates her antique home. She raises chicks, a young daughter, pumpkins and sunflowers. And in her spare time, ...