Every tiny stitch by my grandmother’s hand.
Mary Alta Hendricks born February 7, 1892. The grandmother who taught me to knit.
A 20 second video of the quilt
https://youtube.com/shorts/kTtso8Oz2Gg?si=1oCQQggA-jPpqd92
The Comfort of a Quilt
Tag: family
Home Sweet Home Throwback Thursday
My grandmother, the one who taught me to knit, crocheted this antimacassar or doily. I stitched it onto a plain velveteen pillow. It’s at my sister’s.
My father Roy J. Hendricks (b. 1912) is the boy standing on the left. Uncle Alan Ray Hendricks(b.1916) is the baby on my grandmother’s Mary Alta’s (born Feb 7, 1892)lap. My grandfather is standing, Floyd Merle Hendricks.
The Snow is Still With Us
But cold temps
School is a 2 hour delay Monday morning.
Sourdough Banana Bread
My granddaughter Maura baked Sourdough Banana Bread last week and sent a picture. I’d given her some sourdough starter a couple of weeks ago.
I felt inspired to try and bake it myself. Needed just 3 ripe bananas.
These little glass muffin cups held the leftover batter from the larger loaf.
Here’s the recipe I used. It was really good
Sharon W gsve me the little wooden slice of bread cutting board.
Jan 20, 2019
My Father’s Grandmother Rosa Dayton Hendricks 1869-1958
on the back of a photo
With her sons Glenn on left and my grandfather Floyd Merle Hendricks on right
A Little Free Library
Silent Sunday (a Day Early)
My friend Vincie just wrote an email to inform me that I’m a day ahead of myself and it’s only SATURDAY-not Sunday. Ooops. and I just hung up a new 2026 calendar on the kitchen wall. Guess it would help if I looked at it!
Anyway I like this photo from the archives and maybe I’ll post a second Silent Sunday tomorrow on the correct day of the week.
Putting Away Christmas
I saw these two salt dough ornaments at the top of the box. I’d made and baked these in the mid 1970’s. I’d created all my family in salt dough. That’s my sister (holding a NYC map as she still lives in Manhattan) on the right and the one on the left was a likeness of Marjorie Lutkins holding a crossword puzzle. She was a generous family friend who’d join us on holidays with another friend Naomi Zieber Naomi was a real Charles Dickens fan and had a full set of Royal Doulton China figures and mugs of all the characters from his books
That these ornaments have survived 5 decades amazes me. Recently I found Naomi with her head broken off but I glued it back.
So there are three surviving salt dough ornaments that are fifty years old.
1984 Grafenwoehr Germany
Me carrying Laura in a back pack with Mark and Matthew. Throwback Thursday
