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My Grandmother and  I (Nannie)

9/4/2017

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  I wanted to share some of my earlier beginnings and one of the most influential women in my life and who taught me how to sew, my grandmother. I bet you thought I only sculpted!   I thought it only fitting to share as tomorrow Sept. 5th would have been her birthday.  My grandmothers name was Mary and she was a twin.  My mother always said she had more patience teaching you how to sew than she did her and that she would rather stick a needle in her eye than sew and I guess that's why my mom became a woodworker.
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I spent countless hours sitting beside my grandmother as she taught me how to sew on a old Singer push peddle sewing machine and it is one of my fondest memories.  I loved when she would take me to her upstairs and we would sort and pick out fabric from her treasures of fabrics.  I guess that is why to this day I still love going in a fabric shop and looking at all the beautiful prints.  
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  I remember all the outfits she made me for Easter, a pageant  for the Old times in a complete Little House in the prairie style.  I may have to find that pic.   My most memorable and favorite was a pair of pants with little turtles on them.  
  My grandmother also taught me how to crochet and I still love sitting in the evenings on a cold fall day crocheting.  I have a blanket I have been working on for the last two years here and there using all the scraps of yarn I have.  I love the look of the older afghans and hopefully I'll finish it this winter.  
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  It was later in years and when I was first married as a  Army wife in Fort Bragg NC that I continued my sewing journey.  I worked in a sewing boutique making all kinds of wedding dresses, ball gowns etc...  I was very honored when the then local news anchor woman specially ask for me to make her Christmas Ball gown that year. My grandmother was so proud and she shortly there after passed away.  I can still see the dress and I was so nervous making it.  No pics but I wish I had one.  
  Over the years I still dabbled here and there in sewing and I love making quilts.  It seems as though I haven't had as much time as I would like to sew.  I am hoping to change that a begin adding sewing to my projects.  Years ago I even sculpted and painted on fabric pieces.  No pics but I do have a few pics of some of the quilts I have made.  The one with the Dresdan plate took two years as I did the patches all by hand and yes I even used some fabric my grandmother had given me. 
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 So, remember that cutsie fabric I found and wanted to make a skirt for a cutsie pumpkin?  Here is a pic and hopefully I'll be able to squeeze it in along with my many deadlines.
Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to comment if you have a fond memory.
​Wendy
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6 Comments
Jane Allen link
9/4/2017 07:44:58 am

I think creative people do a lot of different crafts. Sewing was one of the first things I did. One of my first "big" projects was making my mother a dress, I must have been about ten. I remember my mother actually wearing the dress a lot and it had to be less than perfect. Thank you for sharing.

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Wendy
9/4/2017 10:15:48 am

Thanks for sharing Jane. I bet she was proud of the dress!

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Crystal Campbell
9/5/2017 07:34:31 pm

You are doing amazing work Wendy!!!

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Wendy
9/7/2017 02:47:48 pm

Crystal thanks for the kind words and always supporting so many!@ I do notice.

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Charlotte link
9/7/2017 12:04:04 pm

You are one of many talents. I think THAT is our gift when we don't have "monetary" things. I believe, with my whole heart, God gives us what we need to make a living!

I never had a bought dress until I was 13!!

Love you!!

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Wendy
9/7/2017 02:49:00 pm

Amen my friend. Believe me I know what its like to be very very poor. Being creative gives joy in those times. I loved my turtle pants and wore them out lol.

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    Hi and Welcome to OldeMoonlane Primitves.  My name is Wendy Young and I am happy to have you join me.  I am a wife of 37 years, mom of 2 and grandmother of 3 .  I have been creating for well over 35+ years and I started this blog to maybe offer tips /tricks and happenings  at Oldemoonlane.  

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