Oh, my. I am in the process of clearing out the guest room upstairs to move my sewing room in. DH will be tearing off the back porch/my current sewing space to build out an apartment for DU [Dear Batchelor Uncle] to move in. Yep, we will have a 86 yr old and a 94 yr old to take care of - whoohoo!
This morning I had some boxes out, old sheets and towels that do not have beds to fit them. "OK, Mom [DMIL], I'm gonna wash these up, freshen them and put them in the pile for charity." Wait, here's a plastic bag with something in it. Oh, heavens, it is a stack of 21 album blocks pattern! I unfolded them and took them in to Mom. These were made by her grandmother (dh's great-grandmother), who was going to make her a quilt but never got around to it. She passed in 1943 at age
90, and these blocks are mostly hand-sewed. Mom told me of her Aunt Bessie helping her grandmother to sew them, then Gramma ripping out Aunt Bessie's stitches because she didn't like the looks of them ;)) Original 20's fabric or so, green and orange houndstooth type on muslin. Some stains on the muslin. They have been well protected, so not sure what I will do with them yet.DH looked at the, looked at me and said "So, are you gonna keep them, or what?" well, duh!
Ginger in CA