Changing of quilts

 

I like to hang onto every last minute of summer even though I do love autumn.  Over the weekend I brought the ladder in and changed the quilts on the walls to the fall colors.  One of the quilts I took down was mostly hand quilted (click) I am always amazed at how much lighter and hand quilted quilt is compared to one I machine quilted.  Can a double line of thread, top and bottom, really wiegh that much?  Little things I wonder about  --Ann--

What's important here

 I was going through loose photos and cards too.  This candid shot caught my attention.  The television is in the center of the photo turned off,  everyone is amused by something..... not the tv.  No one looks at the camera.  It was attached to their Christmas card.  --Ann--

another scrap book

 The scrap book was a gift to my grandpa, Dec. 1908.  Its all post cards he received  from family and friends  They are fun to look at no syndicated cartoon characters back then.  --Ann--

Everyday amusements

I have found a half dozen or so scrap books some my mother made as a child and some her mother made mostly of newspaper clippings but also brain teasers and puzzles the very same puzzles you find on social media. There are pages of bird illustrations with an article, she colored the birds with crayons or colored pencils.  The Easter picture she used water color.  I guess scrapbooking is what they did in the evening when they were listening to the radio and there were very few children's books available and who could afford them during the depression years.  Then I flip through the book and see the outline of her little foot and hand with the date and Mickey Mouse, she and Mickey were born the same year.  How do I toss something like that?!?

I remember when my mother was cleaning out grandma's house  and Mom saying many many times "this should have been thrown away years ago."  Did she do it??  No! I get too.  Or not.  Then I have to find a space for it.  Reminiscing --Ann--

P.S. I still have the scrapbook I made with my Grandma back in the early 60's and I will never throw it away.

Vintage knitting

Knitting from the 1970's.  My mother was a knitter and knit this pillow, was a sweater first for my youngest brother.  I think the yarn was more acrylic than wool.  She also knit the lower sweater either for my dad or oldest brother it was very heavy and almost too warm to wear in the house.

  

It cost a little over $25.00 for the yarn and pattern.  What a deal!  Still sorting through the stuff and its all really good stuff.  I now have all her aluminum knitting needles too.  --Ann--

Derailed

My brother send me a text last weekend and derailed my whole week.  Our dad passed away 8 years ago so we cleaned out the house to a point because my son moved into it.  Son has since moved out and long discussion as to what to do with the house..........long story short we have a renter so we needed to clear out the rest of the stuff.  Hauling stuff to the pile for the dump, hauling stuff to my car then into my house because its all really good stuff. Then clean the house son owes me a cleaning deposit or at least a big bouquet of flowers for my upcoming birthday really I should get two bouquets. Then sort through the stuff at home and start another pile for the dump.  One of the treasures was this little quilt made by my Grandma, her embroidery and quilting stitches are so tiny and even.  It has a wool batting so it is thick.

 Then I have been going through the family history photo books and scrap books.  The things they did before computers and social media but that is for another day.

 

Darling daughter was home for the weekend and helped look through things a little bit she will have more interest when she is 50. We did take a little diversion to go downtown shopping and out to eat.  Then she downloaded the Broadway musical Come from Away loosely based on the book The Day the World came to Town about Gander, Newfoundland and 9/11.  It was very good. --Ann--

Knitting on the road

 A little mid week road trip to close up the camper for the year and knitting on the road.  A good 3 hours of knitting on the way up and as many hours on the way home.  What progress!! Then as I was knitting a round at home I thought I should try it on. The neck is a bit snug. It’s really snug too snug for wool, I might like to wear a shirt or t neck underneath.  So I ripped it took less than an hour.  And now I can start over, make some notes, go up in needle size or use the same needles and go up a pattern size or find a different pattern.  I’ll knit something else while I think about it.  

Some days are like that.  

--Ann--