While I lived in Argyle, before I joined the Army I did a lot of sewing.
I did make one small pooh bear stuffed animal but I thought I would never have a kid so I gave it to Molly. I have no photos. It was fun to make and came out nice.
What I did do a lot of was embroidery. I didn't do much cross stitch in the early days. I liked the free style better. I had begun doing that when we lived in Kingsbury.
I bought me a set of denim while I lived in Argyle. It was jeans and a jacket but they were plain. They needed something special so I got out my needles and bucket of colors, my flosses. Maybe it was easier because I didn't have to follow a pattern or find the exact number on a floss. I created and it was fun.
Thats me in my denim outfit.
The tree on the bottom symbolizes the tree of life.
While I was doing this and old friend asked me to do a jacket for her daughter. The friend was the secretary of the church in Kingsbury that we used to go to. Her oldest daughter Jennylynn went to Korea as a missionary and married a Korean man there who was a doctor. The last I knew they came back to the states so that Jennylynn could help him and his family become citizens. There were no free rides. They had to work hard to become citizens.
I made the jacket they way I thought would represent her but I was wrong. I didn't know at the time that Suzie was not all that religious, in fact just the opposite. This is the little girl who used to lay on the rug at prayer meetings and pick fluff out of the carpet to stuff up her nose because she said it tickled. I tried, I really did, but when she got it home, Suzie picked out the threads across the back on the top so her friends wouldn't see them.
Also me wearing them.
I did a lot of crochet work there. I made a lot of afghan type blankets. I also took an old pot holder loom and made woven squares of yarn. I crocheted them together to resemble a quilt.
The bed that its on is a Captains Bed that I bought for my Dad once. It had drawers underneath it. I'm not sure how it came to come to Ohio but it eventually did become old Tom's bed.
I taught myself to make these booties from a small pattern I found in Woman's Day on how to make them for babies. I made them for adults.
Sometimes I made them taller and more like a sock. Mom always had cold feet. I made them for her when she was in the hospital.
I'm going to leave the next page empty for now because I have some more of my projects I did there to show but I haven't found the pictures yet. They are here. I just need to figure out which folder is which.