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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

In My Blood

My grandmother taught me to knit when I was 8. My other grandmother had the button box-we strung buttons to make necklaces. She recycled clothing to make room sized braided rugs and painted her own patterns on her linoleum. Grandma Grace made alot of our clothes-she had a dresser drawer filled with just zippers. Her garage was an original pottery barn. Full of molds, slip, paint and a kiln. She did just about everything incl. crochet giant fancy tablecloths out of thread. Aunt Carol was the Embroidery Guild of Oklahoma City President-she traveled with a trunk of embroidery threads. Aunt Marian made beautiful porcelean dolls. My mother's grandmothers both quilted-for income. Every girl and some of the men in my immediate family knit. Every winter we gather and share knitting and talk, eat and laugh or cry. Go to a movie? Grab your knitting. Have to sit through a faculty meeting? Don't forget your knitting. Sports event-knitting is the bag. Yes-had a ball of yarn roll down to the front of the auditorium at my 22 year old son's opera he was in at KU. At least it is easier to carry around than the full size quilts I used to lug with me to hand quilt. Beads-I have been buying beads for 20 years? Started slow. Stopped at times. Love to haunt thrift stores the best-weird unique stuff. I also like estate sales and auctions-but not garage sales as much. We girls get together during blue moons and 'bead'. Everyone loves it. Once had a beading party with my quilt guild-they used whatever beads they wanted for free. Um. Lots of beads made people happy that night. I dont buy clothes, I dont buy stuff for the'house'. I buy colors and shapes and textures-whether beads, fabric, yarn and stuff. I bought SO MUCH FABRIC during the 90's and early 00's. How much? I sold fabric for 1$ a yard at a quilt show-I made $400. Ouch. We will talk about OCD and starving people another time. What's the point? Making stuff is in my blood.

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