I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane

One last post before vacation.

I have the goodies packed in my luggage and my knitting bag packed with a couple of projects, extra needles, and yarn. I anticipated holding a knitting class for nieces and niece-in-laws while I am visiting. The sister who taught me to knit is also coming for a visit at the same time, together we should be able to encourage some new knitters and we certainly will have a grand time discussing our knitting and other needlework. This sister loves machine embroidery and the two oldest sisters are the most fantastic quilters.

Several years ago they were invited to participate in the GA State Fair and there was a nice article written about them in the Atlanta Journal; a real treat for them. My two older sister are eighty-five and eighty. Each lives alone and the eighty year old is still able to drive herself to her quilting circle twice a week. Both make beautiful quilts and have made and given each of their children and grandchildren a quilt or two. The colors, names, and patterns of these quilts are amazing but even more than that are the stitches. Such tiny stitches and all straight in their lines and ever so neat. This circle of ladies have quilted together for years and know each other so well they can look at a quilt and tell you whose stitches are where. Amazing. I don't have the gift of quilting but my mother did and loved it as much as these older sisters do. In fact she taught us all to quilt but only these two older ones learned to love the craft so well. My mother's favorite needlework was tatting and hand embroidery. None of us girls learned to tat; now we all wish we had. Several of us embroidery and all except one sews, some extremely well and we all learned from our mother. I can't wait to see what has been hand made since I last visited. Oh us girls are going to have fun and so will Mr. Rō. The iris are blooming and he plans to dig and divide iris for one of the sisters while we are there. We plan to visit an iris display garden in Warm Spring, GA., home of President Roosevelt's Little White House. And - there are BIG SUPPERS planned; a bar-be-que with brunswick stew and homemade ice cream, a catfish fry with bar-be-qued chicken for anyone not liking catfish, a sitdown dinner at a newphew's new home, and a BIG Mid-day SUNDAY DINNER after church. It's always fun to relive some of those childhood days that are still so much a part of my family's life.