Some books arrived in the mail this week that I had on my wish list for the past two years, things you discover and put off for another day, until it feels like the right moment to explore.  Tasha Tudor’s Heirloom Crafts from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Gift Shop was nothing like anything I had ever read or seen before.  I first discovered her there many years ago and thought she was a fictitious character, invented and then staged at the Colonial Williamsburg village as a sort of living history museum.  Little did I know this was a real person, who lives her life entirely in the manner of the early 19th Century.  One of the things I was really drawn to were her hand woven linens edged in lace.  All I could think about was that I somehow needed something as comforting and beautiful as that beneath my head to wisk away a weary day while I sleep at night.  I remembered seeing a crochet book in the bookstore once that had a pattern for a very simple crochet edge for a pillowcase and a brief Google search brought me to this free pattern from Nancy Wiseman from her book, Lace From the Attic.