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Yorkiemom1 · 02-22-2013, 08:06 AM

Absolutely beautiful work!! I had an aunt that could sew, crochet, and knit...she did it all and she was absolutely magical with it...she could be walking down the street and see a dress she liked and she would go home and make the dress!!! I remember she crocheted a dress, a short little jacket, pill box hat, and she covered a purse, all out of a narrow tourquoise satin ribbon....it was amazing! When she would come for a visit, I would sit at her feet and watch her knit....her fingers just FLEW!!! She was sooooo fast! I was 5 years old then.....I would even collect a quarter from the neighborhood kids so they could sit and watch her knit so fast! Of course, momma didnt know I was selling tickets to see the fastest knitter in the world.....!! We laughed about that so many times, years later....and now she is gone.....she taught me to do a chain stitch.....I still have a ball of yarn of chain stitch that has to be as large around as a grapefruit, so I have no idea how many miles long that it is.....and she left me her little portable Singer sewing machine, circa 1938-40.....and I can not sew a stitch!!!

02-22-2013, 08:06 AM	#21
Yorkiemom1 Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas Posts: 9,462	Absolutely beautiful work!! I had an aunt that could sew, crochet, and knit...she did it all and she was absolutely magical with it...she could be walking down the street and see a dress she liked and she would go home and make the dress!!! I remember she crocheted a dress, a short little jacket, pill box hat, and she covered a purse, all out of a narrow tourquoise satin ribbon....it was amazing! When she would come for a visit, I would sit at her feet and watch her knit....her fingers just FLEW!!! She was sooooo fast! I was 5 years old then.....I would even collect a quarter from the neighborhood kids so they could sit and watch her knit so fast! Of course, momma didnt know I was selling tickets to see the fastest knitter in the world.....!! We laughed about that so many times, years later....and now she is gone.....she taught me to do a chain stitch.....I still have a ball of yarn of chain stitch that has to be as large around as a grapefruit, so I have no idea how many miles long that it is.....and she left me her little portable Singer sewing machine, circa 1938-40.....and I can not sew a stitch!!! Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 02-22-2013 at 08:07 AM.