Very nice, and good for you for passing on those skills!
Can We Show Off Our Crafts?
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She has really taken to rug hooking. We gave her one last summer which she recently finished, and she asked for a bigger one for Christmas.
oh, ginger.Spidey at hers.........
the last model I made three years ago
This tickles me. There are so many beautiful textile arts being lost as our grandparents pass, and we pass. Keep up the good work and encourage others to teach their sons and daughters too.
Well, we want to see it!the last model I made three years ago
GORGEOUS!!
Awwww,there is nothing better than a handmade gift from your child
It's awesome that you are passing on crafting skills to your Granddaughter.Thank you
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Sounds like a great idea for a Christmas present!It's done on my sewing machine. I'm using the walking foot to try to keep the lines straight and use free-motion quilting in the centers of the ones that have the curves. I've got it down to taking a little over an hour to do each block but the one with the diamond in the center and cross-hatching in the corners around it took me 2-1/2 hours. I figure I have another 20+ hours to finish the quilting and then add the binding. I could do it faster if I didn't have to turn the quilt around each time I need to go in a different direction. With a queen size quilt that's giving me quite a workout for my arms and shoulders! If I had the money and space I'd buy a long-arm quilting machine in a heartbeat.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Wow - that is industrial size - I had no idea.Will it fit under the tree? How to get it down the chimney?
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
My Grandma on my Dad's side was an excellent seamstress. She could take an old flour sack and turn it into a beautiful pillow case.
I wish she had lived longer - apparently my oldest sister spent (almost) the first six months of her life with Granny - she spoke nothing but French to my sister Mary Anne.
She did not technically live with her, of course.
My Granny's only daughter had died of blood poisoning. (Granny Bertrand also had four sons - one of them was my Dad, Roland).
Her name was Irene. She tripped on a wooden sidewalk and got a bad cut - it became infected and she died of blood poisoning at the age of 12. Granny was heart broken. This was back in the 30s in rural Quebec and they could not afford a doctor.
Oh,how sad. isn't it weird, as time marches on, how people that have been lost to things that are easily taken care of? Well, even back then, things could be taken care of, but no one could afford the care. Sounds like, at least here in america, we haven't learned much from that.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
It was the Depression - they had to kill wild game to eat, (believe it or not). I just realized how much what I am writing sounds a bit like fiction, but I swear I am telling the truth.
There were four boys - Roderick, Romeo, and Roland [then she called the youngest boy Aimee], but I am not sure why she switched letters!
Anyway - back to the theme of the thread - I have a nice burgundy, dark green and sage afghan I made out of crocheted squares - that is the extent of my needlework.
I recently bought some clear plastic hollow Christmas ornaments at Shopper's Drug Mart. I plan to take the mini Vaseline lip balms out of them and then used them as molds for my home-made bath bombs.
I'm planning ahead for retirement!
I do believe it. My grandparents were the same.
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Just beautiful, Marsha!My daughter loved the quilt so she has been deemed quilt worthy and can keep it. Here's what it looked like finished--or most of it as I couldn't fit it all in camera frame. I'd asked my older daughter if she would like a quilt for xmas next year since I'd made one for her brother and sister and she told me she had enough quilts. That was before she saw this one and decided maybe she should let me finish the one she's been working on.
That is so pretty Marsha. You are just getting better and better at your art. Love it.
This is my latest project which I started 2 or 3 years ago and then put away. The colors and pattern are way out of my usual comfort zone but I'm making it for my place in AZ and think the Southwestern colors/design will work there. The other picture is from one posted on Pinterest that is the same basic design but very different colors but I loved the quilting on it and am going to try to use that as inspiration for the quilting on the one I'm making. Will probably be a couple months before I'm finished as I usually only do sewing on weekends. Amazing how different the same pattern can look just with different fabric colors.
It's gorgeous alone, and it will be even more gorgeous when you quilt it. I can't wait to see it.