Paper-cutting was originally used as patterns for family embroidery. Her grandmother would cut the designs and paste them ...

Carolyn Guest can draw with scissors. The St. Johnsbury resident is one of only a handful of folk artists in Vermont devoted to the art of paper cutting. What began as a way to pass time as a child ...

It's a familiar scenario in homes where avid craftspeople dwell among mere mortals − a well-meaning child, on the hunt for a sharp pair of scissors to wrap some Christmas gifts, raids mom's sewing kit ...