Down Memory Lane

I did get something finished yesterday! I got the binding sewn on to my new quilt for summer. I loved this fabric collection the first time I saw it. It's by Fig Tree and was named Fresh Laundry. The fabrics look a little bright here, but in reality it looks like a quilt that has been faded a little by the sun. The pillow on the bed is a Crab Apple Hill Embroidery pattern that I did last year. And the picture to the left of the bed is one of my sister and I.






We are in our hand-crocheted dresses and tap shoes. I would have been 6 or 7 and Mary 4 or 5. (She's the pretty one.) I got this picture from my Dad. It's in a beautiful old frame with a convex glass. On the back of the picture was a United Airlines flight schedule from 1949.









This bedroom has really turned into a nostalgia room for me. I have some old pictures of my family. And I have decided to stitch some cross stitch samplers representing the women in my family. My favorite patterns are from Blackbird Designs and I've been taking their suggestion to create these family records in stitching. This sampler is for my paternal grandmother. The date signifies the year my dad was born.






This is my Grandma O'Neill. I believe we lived in California at the time. I don't remember her at all when I was small, but I did meet her when I was 17 and visiting my Dad.











I stitched this sampler in memory of my mother, Mildred Lucille Usher. The house reminds me of her parents house when I was really little. I remember it being 'big and gray'. The original pattern did include age 12 so I used 1932 as she would have been 12 years old then. I don't know if she sewed much when she was a little girl. I know there was lots of work for her to do as she was the second oldest of 7 children. But I would like to think that if she had time she would have enjoyed doing something like this.



My mom and I. Looks like the same house. Look at those jowls!!

That's it for today. Pardon my reminiscing....