Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Pre-Spring..

It’s Pre-Spring…Dee and I traveled to Minden, Ne last week.  The car trip takes us along the Platte.  The fields were full of Snow Geese, Canadian Geese, and Sandhill Cranes.  The fields were plowed, just waiting for spring planting.  But the calendar says March and so one warm, sunny day leads into a cold, snowy day.  Minden is special to us.  It’s the home of our grandparents and parents and the resting place for most of our family.  Driving around the city square evokes wonderful memories of our childhood.  The building that housed our grandfather's dental office is now a tanning/tattoo salon.  Dress shops, city cafes, five and dime stores, and pharmacies have been replaced with antique shops, fitness spas, and various city/country offices.  The courthouse is still majestic… we must plan a trip next December to see the Christmas lights. 

We slowly drive by our grandparents’ houses.  The houses look the same on the outside.  But decades have past and so the insides are probably very different.  I think it is okay not to go inside and instead hold onto my childhood memories…standing on the kitchen table to have hand-me down dresses pinned and hemmed, playing grandma’s organ, running down the stairs into the basement to play “store”, and sitting around the large dining room table for Sunday dinner with my aunts and uncles and older cousins.  

Dee and I feel very fortunate to have known our Grandmothers into our adult years.  Both of us attribute our love to sewing to our grandmothers.  We never saw them without sewing, knitting, or crocheting projects.  They encouraged us to do whatever we enjoyed. And so we say thank you and we love you.

Join us at I Love Sewing this Friday for TGIF.  We will be using Textured Magic for a fun Tote Bag.  Quilting 101 continues on Saturday.  And Shop Hop is just around the corner. 

2011 Shop Hop Bags
TGIF Tote Texture Magic Bag
Quilting 101
New Fabric: Celia by Benartex

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