This is for Kelli Jo's Falliday Fest challenge to be inspired by Dolly Parton's song Coat of Many Colors. I couldn't get oast the line "Love in every stitch." It brought up good memories of my mom and grandma. Both my Grandmas were talented homemakers. My maternal grandma died when I was younger so I don't have as many memories of her. My paternal grandma, a mother of 15 living children, was always busy and she made coiled rag baskets and rugs as a hibby. She also made crazy quilts out of polyester fabrics and eaxh of her 80 plus grandkids got a full bed size quilt at theur graduation and then our first babies got crib quilts. My mom sewed lots of our clothes when we were younger and then made T-shirt quilts for each grandchild as they graduated from high school. This year my son graduates and with Mom gone the task falls to me to keep the tradition going.
I had the old sewing pattern dp and then the bg strip dp and accents are from a stack of 6x6 papers. I stamped and embossed the sewing machine... Mom made all but the last couple of quilts on her old black Singer that she got when she was in high school! I had the scrap of an embossed and inked measuring tape. I stamped the thimble in Versamark onto silver paper and embossed in pewter. Some of these are popped and I added the twine.
Date: Monday, October 23, 2017 GMT Views: 770
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Mon, Oct 23, 2017 @ 11:21 AM
Love your card as well as your story! My mother made a lot of my clothes when I was in grade school, and I made a lot of my daughters clothes up through fourth grade when she left the private school and started the public where she started wearing pants. To this day, she hardly ever wears slacks but lives in skirts and dresses. And since graduating UNC has been in the fashion industry and cannot sew a thing!
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Mon, Oct 23, 2017 @ 2:43 PM
Gail, your story is so touching. Interesting the way some things touch us and inspire us. The card is just great and I bet you enjoyed every minute you spent creating it. I love that image of the old sewing machine. When my grandmother died she didn't leave much, but we did get into a bit of a pickle deciding who was going to get her stand-up button box.
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