CLOSED--Winter Themed Jelly Roll/Fabric Strip Swap--November 2009

[CedarRidgeChicks]

My strips went out today!!

 

[Acre of Blessings]

My strips are packaged and ready to go but it may be sometime int he near future that they actually get to the Post Office.

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

I can relate Acre..I have had all my blocks/strips packaged for a looong while..along with the fabric to you..I either forgot to take them when I wnt to town or forgot to go by the PO but I got r done today!!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Well at least ya'll have gotten yours cut! Mine is still hanging on the line uncut!!

Nanacat got yours today!! This is like Christmas! I love getting things in the mail!!!

 

[ginbart]

Mine are in the envelopes all ready to go. I forgot DS had a doctors appt. So that took up my afternoon. I will get them out tomorrow after work in the morning. I have so much to go out.

 

[NanaKat]

Glad to hear they arrived.

We lost my Grandmother today. One of my fondest memories of her is sitting next to her watching her sew....by hand. Although she had a sewing machine, she prefered to sew everything by hand, including her day dresses. She was crafty and creative and not afraid of a saw or a needle. She loved going fishing too. My Grandma was 100 years old last February 16. She lived a long, fruitful life and I will miss her.

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

..Nanakat..My prayers and thoughts are with you..my grandmother was 94 when she passed away..I was only 16 but she instilled the love of sewing in me..I think of her daily and thank God that my memories are such good ones!!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Nanacat, I'm so sorry for your loss. There is a special place in heaven for Grandmas and I'm sure yours will be there.

Both of my Grandmas have passed. Each was so different than the other. Chew Gum Grandma (she aways chewwed Wrigleys Spermint gum) was a cigarette smoking, beer drinking, bikini wearing, honky tonk singing Grandma. She ran away from her abusive husband with her boyfriend and hitchhiked all the way to Fla down Highway A1A from NJ back in the '60's.

Grandma Bridgeton(we called her by the town she lived in because it was easier than saying her real last name which was Polish!!) She was the "typical" white hair, cookie baking, rocking chair Grandma. She made sure that all her kids, their wives or husbands, grandkids, their kids and attachements all had a gift at Christmas. May have been jammies, or towels for our hope chests, just a little something.

May you find peace in your memories.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Nana sorry for your loss, I never knew either one of my Grandmothers or Grandfathers and I always felt so cheated.

 

[goldenluver]

Nanna,
you were very fortunate to have a grandmother like her for so long. Charish the memories, most don't have those. I am very sorry for your loss and my prayers are with you. I have a grandmother who is now 93 years old. she still lives on a farm by herself (she rents the land to a neighboring farmer so she doesn't actually work the land anymore). She does not quit anything, she only goes to the care facilities when she breaks a leg or hip (several time in last 20 years) and refuses to let any one live with her. She quilts and sews and knits and likes to garden still. I admire her very much.