Crafty Women

                                                                                                                                                                                                 For some reason, I was in the mood to embroider.  I remember embroidering pillow cases in the summer.  It was at Jefferson, so I had to be older than 9.  I think it was Mom who taught me to embroider.

I remember mom doing more knitting than crocheting.  I think she made most of us an afghan on those really big needles and 3 strands of yarn.  Mom sewed too.  I remember when she took a sewing class through community ed.  She made a couple of shirtwaist dresses while taking the class.

Ma did knit.  She made Jimmy some heavy wool socks.  I think she preferred crocheting.  She made doilies.

 Our big project together was a bedspread.  I got a notion to make Mom and Dad a crocheted bedspread for their 25th anniversary.  They didn't get it until their 30th!!

The bedspread had 2 kinds of squares.  One was plain and the other one had an Irish rose in the center.  Ma could not be fussed doing the rose.  So she did the plain squares and I did the rose squares.  It was pretty amazing that our tensions were about the same.

If you want to hear about someone who beats all, Colette Keniry can knit, read and watch TV all at the same time.

I continue to be a slacker!!!

Monkey for Stella and Grammy

Sock Monkey for Stella

     When Stella was here in July, I started this sock monkey.  This is literally made from Rockford Red Heel Socks. I remember Grammy (Catherine Morehead Hogan Selby) making these.  What's old is new again if you think of the Kia commercial.
    The other thing I remember Grammy making is the yo-yo doll.  That I can't make for Stella right now--at least not in the format I remember it.  Small circles of fabric were basted around the outside edge and then gathered into a circle. I remember doing this with Grammy. You'd need lots of these circles to make the yo-yo clown doll.  I remember it having jingle bells where the hands and feet would be.  I don't remember the face. When I went looking for it on the Internet, I found this image. Ding Dong School with Miss Frances!!!