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
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Silent Sunday
My Grandmother Taught Me Huck Embroidery
Embroidering on the vertical threads of the fabric surface.
This towel was embroidered by me in 1966. It’s called Swedish Embroidery or Swedish Weaving too. My father’s mother, who taught me to knit, taught me this design to embellish a linen towel. I remembering pulling threads with a needle to fringe the bottom edge
I discovered you can still get the Huck Toweling Fabric or Kits to embroider the towels.
Here’s a Beginners Video if you want to try it.
An article from PieceWork Magazine says…
“The French know this embroidery technique as broderie suedoise (Swedish embroidery); Italian needleworkers refer to it as punto filza (running stitch). In Spain, the same type of needlework is bordado Yugoslavo (Yugoslavian embroidery) or punto de llama (flame stitch). Ponto oitinho (eight stitch) is the Portuguese name for a strictly pictorial version of the technique in which designs are composed of rows of figure-eight (twisted-loop) stitches. A similar type of Portuguese embroidery, ponto vagonite (vagonite refers to the ground fabric), employs all the traditional huck-embroidery stitches”
“Huck embroidery, sometimes called huck weaving or Swedish weaving, is a form of embroidery that blends a bit of surface embroidery with weaving. Its name comes from huck cloth, which is the most common material used for this style, and as its alternate name suggests, huck embroidery originated in Sweden”
Update 12:34 Thursday 2/27
Look what just found at the library
Grandmother’s Recipe Box
My paternal grandmother, Mary Alta Hendricks’ recipe box. No fewer than five recipes for rolls. Lots of baking cakes. There are Crisp Pickle Chips, a few prize winners clipped from a newspaper one from 1950. I’ve posted some before but I like to touch and read them, find her friends’ names in pencil- Lucille Roberts, Ruth Kiest, Vesta.
Four years ago I posted about my friend Kristin’s husband Rick baking bread and showed her recipe box with a poem in the lid.
Today I’m sharing more of the contents as my friend Vincie suggested recipe cards after a post a couple of months asking if you still use cookbooks
I plan to bake the Orange Cake.
Happy 44th Birthday
November 20, 1980 was a snowy morning. We left home a little after 8 AM. The hospital was barely a block away from our house.
I was told oooops baby isn’t in a good position so you could be here all day.
Guess you heard that declaration, got into a good position, then everything happened fast? Guess you decided you’d surprise us.
You were born at 10:10 AM.
My mom came out to help.
Looking at this photo of my mom holding you, I realize my mother (68) is just 4 years younger than I am now.
Love to you on your birthday.
Love, Ma
Almost 101 years ago
One of the books from My Bookshelf. Inscribed to my mother by my grandmother. My mother would have been eleven years old that Christmas
Hat in 1910 Photo
I wonder if my grandmother purchased her hat in this Millinery parlor in Rockford Illinois which had an ad in her 1906 high school yearbook.
The Grandmother Who Taught Me to Knit
At the Fair c.1940
Found in my paternal grandmother’s photo album
I think the boy is my father’s brother Harold (Butch) b.1928
Because the woman’s face is in the shadow of the hat brim, I’m not sure if that’s my grandmother
Here’s a photo of young Uncle Harold at my parents wedding August 28, 1939. He was seventeen years younger than my dad. Uncle Alan is on the right.
Throwback Thursday
Granddaughter Maura and me.
