Mother's Day 2008

It was a great day.



Granddaughter sent out for donuts. I went to the store and picked up a deep fryer for her sons to give her for their gift. We went to my youngest daughters for late lunch and had bar-b-qued brisket, mashed potatoes and corn on the cob.

Had calls or notes from all my children and my ex, since my phone doesn't work at daughters, he tracked me down and called me on her phone. It was a good day.

I'm making my youngest granddaughter a quilt with little dresses to replicate a dress she has. So my daughter pulled several from her closet and took photos of them with close-ups of detail for me to use. I took and showed her the 2 I'd been working on and she really liked them as did her mother-in-law. I have fabric for 2 more. One of the dresses is made from an antique pillow case (or from one that has embroidery on it with crocheted lace on the edge). She got it online. The open end with the embroidery makes the hem, they cut off the closed end of the pillow case, rounded out the two sides to form arm holes, gathered across top and finished with a binding. Added ribbons to tie on at shoulders, took matching color fabric and made pataloons. It is cute.


One of the 3 dresses we took pictures of was a tiny green and pink gingham check. Her other grandmother had made it for her. It was from a pattern I'm sure most of us had for our daughters when they were small. It is one piece with the hem going around and up the back to fasten at the shoulders. My daughter wore them, but the back criss crossed with buttons at the shoulders. Opened flat for ironing - yes ironing - then we didn't have wash and wear fabrics. We ironed clothes, pillow cases, tablecloths, and scarfs, at least I did. All were starched and I don't miss the ironing or the time it took, but do miss the feel of crawing in bed with fresh sheets from the clothesline and nice crisp pillow cases.


The last dress was a seersucker check of pink and green with watermelon slices along the border (of the green check). With accents of little bumble bees buzzing around the flowers attached with the slices.


This will give me about 1/3 of the blocks for this quilt. One will be a minature as close as I can get to her Christening dress since it was purchased. I did buy some material and make her bonnet and booties. So that one will have to wait until I get more settled in my own place and get things unpacked.