needlepoint

She was reported to fill her time with needlepoint and bookkeeping duties, and was paroled in 2007 at the age of 77 from a low-security federal facility for women in Dublin, east of San Francisco.

Inside Dorothy’s Kansan house, a once-shadowed frying pan on the wall now dangles front and center, as does a digitally added “Home Sweet Home” needlepoint nailed to the threshold.

During an art residency last year in a former castle in the Umbrian countryside, the textile artist Liz Collins sat in her temporary studio stitching a needlepoint.

She gave the actor a “beautiful needlepoint pillow” and they’ve spoken over the phone about their favorite cop shows.

The two also became business partners, opening a needlepoint shop on the Upper East Side called 2 Needles.