Thursday, March 30, 2006

grandma made all our clothes......

Treadmills
one more box.......this was one of the first i made....several weeks ago. my mother's grandma made all of her and her sister's clothes. she told me how her grandma would come over with this whirl wind of energy.....measuring the girls and explaining to them what she had in mind. of course, they loved it and adored her! she was such fun and so creative. she always told mom that she "stole with her eyes"...taking them shopping to get ideas. she didn't even have to draw out her ideas.....just see what she liked and reproducing it when she got to her machine. what a talent! i can't make ANYTHING without a pattern. i do sew all the time, but rely heavily on Simplicity and her friends. anyway, that is where the idea for this box came from......

2 comments:

Tongue in Cheek Antiques said...

isn't that a talent to convet! My friend who is 88 use to be a hatmaker. Each season she said she use to walk about the center of the city to "steal the new "look" with her eyes! Her boss, was thrilled how she could whip up hats by memory.
sounds like yours and mine were cut from the same cloth!!

number four said...

I love hearing about my great, great grandmother. Makes me want to pull the sewing machine and create!