From past blogs and archives if you’ve been following me you’ve seen the photos before but I want to honor and remember an important person in my life who influenced what I do most days. Knit!
Honoring my paternal Grandmother born on February 7, 1892
Heritage
Ben H at WordPress says “This week, share a photo of something that says “heritage” to you. It can be from your own family or culture — a library, a work of public art, a place of worship, an object passed down to you from previous generations.”
Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks my paternal grandmother. Farmersville, Illinois. She taught me to knit when I was four years old.
She knit the Afghan and made the quilt. She’d tat snd crochet, too. I held the quilt to the window so the light could show how beautifully it is pieced and hand stitched.
My father Roy J. Hendricks is the boy standing on the left. Uncle Alan Hendricks is the baby on my grandmother’s lap. My grandfather is standing, Floyd Merle Hendricks.
From 3 years ago post
Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks, my paternal grandmother, was born in 1892 She went by the name Alta. When my father was born they lived in Farmersville, Illinois. One summer my brother and I stayed with our grandparents and she taught me to knit. It was yellow yarn is straight aluminum needles. They were red. I was four years old.
This is just from the time she resided in a Nursing Care Center in Taylorville, Illinois. My grandmother kept a list of the afghans and shawls she knit for others during this period of her life.
Written inside the cover of her copy of The Book of Common Prayer.
This is so special. I love old photos and the knitted items are wonderful.
Thank you Sheila ❤️
How wonderful. I love these great memories. To think she taught you to knit at age four and you are still knitting!
It is amazing. There were periods in my life when I didn’t knit much but it’d been a real life saver for me Darlene.
I’m sure it has. Grandmothers are the best!! (and now you are a wonderful grandmother)
Life is just a blink, isn’t it?
How lovely that you have such fond memories of her.
I feel the same, Sheree. Thanks
Pleasure
An amazing story with amazing pictures!
Thank you Alta. Thanks to you teaching Ruth to knit I was able to keep my feet warm during a very cold snap here in Florida this winter by wearing a pair of socks she knit for me all these years later. dc
Awww that is the loveliest message. Thank you dc❤️
What a beautiful collection of precious memories. Love seeing each and everyone of these photos. Amazing you have been knitting since you were 4 years old.
My first knitting looked like Swiss Cheese.
Yes, thank you, Grandma, for teaching Ruth to knit. Ruth’s handknit socks warm my feet and her handknit mittens warm my hands. Love them both!
Awww.thanks Audrey. ❤️
Some memories are so cool.Im sure even after life you can’t forget such wow memories
True.
What powerful memories. “Yellow yarn on red needles.” Some things we just never forget.
True.