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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.