Mom and I have been digging through dresser drawers where treasures are buried!
This is crocheted lace from my grandmother which was rescued from a pair of pillow cases.
We all slept with her lace on our pillow cases!
And I am so pleased Mom found these and gifted them to me because they go with the shadow box
I made a few years (?) ago with the pic of my 4x great Aunt Louisa and her knitted lace--
these were her knitting needles!
Size people is 0000--these wires are SO tiny! Amazing!
Now I have the whole story for that shadow box and that makes me so happy!
I will reunite them soon!
I will reunite them soon!
So during one of our many memory lane conversations,
I asked about this and so a'digging we went and found her-
Orphan Annie knitting spool
and it is even painted from her back, too!
To Mom's nearest estimation, this was her oldest sister's,
who will be 90 this December so this girl has helped knit tubes (I-cords) for a long time.
Mom can remember knitting cords and stitching them into a spiral for a coaster
to go on the table by her dad's chair.
(The very table she has in her own living room today by my dad's chair!)
I will make him a coaster and pass the tradition on, right?!
