PROJECT EDITOR Describe yourself in 5 words or less. Caring and patient Describe your worst attempt at craft. Making a clay pot at school. If you could master one new skill, what would it be?  Watercolour  painting What's your favourite project that's been featured in Handmade? Cross stitch santa in Vol 23 No 8. Describe your greatest creative achievement Running my own folk art studio for 10 years How is your home decorated? Cottage country What is your favourite colour and why? Pink. I always feel comfortable with this colour. Tell us about your earliest childhood craft memories. Stitching through holes in cardboard making geometric designs. What's the best handmade present you've ever received? A cross stitch my daughter did two years ago. Tell us an unusual or surprising fact about yourself. I’d like to learn to fly a helicopter. What is your motto in life? Treat people as you would like to be treated. Describe any "what was I thinking?" purchases. Half of the clothes in my wardrobe. What music do you listen to while you work? John Farnham.