I received a phone call from Richard Brown last night. His wife Carollyn suffered a massive stroke on Tuesday, and was taken off life support Wednesday afternoon. Richard asked me to gently share the information with the tatting community.
Carollyn and I followed each other's blogs for quite a few years, and we greatly admired each other's work. If you followed Carollyn's Tatting Blog, you were one of the lucky members of the tatting community. Her creativity was amazing!
Carollyn and I were able to meet in person the summer of 2018, when Lisa Adams hosted her first Tat Days event in Indiana. I'm so happy that I was able to meet Carollyn and her husband that summer.
One of my favorite memories of Carollyn comes from after we met in person. We had been bouncing tatting ideas around and decided that it was easier to talk on the phone than to go back and forth with emails. Then we wound up playing phone tag! Carollyn accidentally reached me when I was shopping in Walmart with my daughter. We laughed, because Carollyn was also shopping in Walmart and had somehow dialed my number while trying to reach someone else. Believe me, there's nothing like shopping in Walmart while chatting about tatting with a friend!
I thought of calling Carollyn this past weekend. I was thinking about her beautiful tatting embellished keys, and realized we hadn't chatted in quite a while. I'm sorry I didn't take the opportunity to call her when I thought of her. I'm glad for the friendship we shared, and I will always remember the sparkle in her eyes, her contagious laughter, and her beautiful smile!
Enjoy tatting with the angels, Carollyn!
Update: Richard called around 4:20 on Friday, September 24 to tell me that Carollyn had passed about a half hour before. Rest in peace, dear friend.
