Of course I still have the planter shown here in the Ireland Army Hospital window 49 years ago- I pulled it out and washed it out The planter is still available online. Made in Japan
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 agopost
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.
Great grandson Shawn Hendricks posted a photo of this tag found on his father’s (John) Afghan1973 photograph of me in the middle, my grandmother on the right and Aunt Vesta Kent on the left. Morrisonville, Illinois.
From Fig & Ash restaurant on East Ohio Street “Fig & Ash is a locally-inspired and seasonally-focused restaurant.” We were celebrating a friend’s birthday.
From their menu-
TO FINISH
CAST IRON KAHLUA FUDGE BROWNIE
millie’s coffee break ice cream | maldon sea salt
(Millie’s Ice Cream is delicious by itself as well and I see they have Nationwide Delivery😂)
(And I had to look up Maldon Salt harvested in the UK)
