Tasha Tudor
Bucilla Needle Crafts
Tasha Tudor, who turned 85 in the year 2000,
is genuinely a legend in her own time.
Born as Starling Burgess, Tasha is one of America's most
beloved illustrators. Her first little story, Pumpkin Moonshine,
was published in 1938 and quickly became an American classic.
Subsequently she has illustrated nearly one hundred books,
the most recent being Clement Moore's famous Night Before
Christmas, in 1999.
Tudor is still actively involved in her artwork at her farm
in rural Vermont where she lives an 1830's lifestyle with
her corgi named Benjamin Franklin, cat, pet rooster and other
birds. Milking goats inhabit her barn and fields. Each summer
Tasha Tudor leaves her art table and tends her large, beautiful
flower garden.
Today her art and lifestyle are almost interchangeable. She
lives the scenes depicted in her designs that have been translated
into Bucilla's counted  cross
stitch. This is a product line Tudor herself would enjoy since
she is a prolific craftsperson making period clothing, Christmas
gifts for friends and family, dolls and doll houses.
In 1996 the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg,
Virginia, the world's premier folk art museum, mounted a major
exhibition on Tasha Tudor. Attended by record-breaking crowds,
this landmark exhibit was unprecedented in its scope, content
and participation by a living artist. Along with the books
and licensed products that feature her illustrations, Tasha
Tudor has quite a legacy.
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