back to school

[Stitchn-Jeans]

I did some embroidering this morning. My youngest grandson is starting kindergraten tomorrow so i decided to put a design on a green t-shirt.
I wish i could show you. On the back says back to school with a crayon and an apple and on the front i put his name "Aiden". I went to his house this afternoon to give it to him and he was so excited. My oldest grandson left Sat. for college. My oldest daughter has a boy and a girl. My youngest daughter has two boys.

Stitchn-Jeans

[kidzbizz]

I did some embroidering this morning. My youngest grandson is starting kindergraten tomorrow so i decided to put a design on a green t-shirt.
I wish i could show you. On the back says back to school with a crayon and an apple and on the front i put his name "Aiden". I went to his house this afternoon to give it to him and he was so excited. My oldest grandson left Sat. for college. My oldest daughter has a boy and a girl. My youngest daughter has two boys.

Stitchn-Jeans

My grandson started VPK last week.I have to wait to make things for their holiday parties since he has to wear a uniform to school.

Judie

[The Hen]

What a great grandmom you are. Don't you remember the excitement of the first day of school. Wearing your new clothes and all the neat school supplies. This is the first time in 30 years I haven't started my school career. I retired from teaching last June. I will just have to fill my time embroidering for my grandkids .

[jocheryl]

i'm over 50 and i still remember the dress i wore on my first day of school. it was tiny red and white checks with delicate white lace trim around the collar and other edges. my sweet sweet grandmother made it for me.

she made me lots of clothes.

on each birthday she embroidered my name and the date and my age on the sash of my birthday dress...the embroidery was in her own handwriting. i LOVED that!

the last dress she ever made for me was when i was in 8th Grade, it was bright bright golden yellow voile with white daisy like flowers that had hot pink centers all over (flower power of the 60's) it had tiny 1/2" wide ruffles of the same fabric around the cuffs and collar for trim and covered buttons with loops for button holes on the cuffs (wide wide cuffs). she was in her 80's then and shortly after that, she went away to her "own world" for quite a few years before she died. it was hard having her there, but not there at the same time.

the dresses she made for me mean more to me than just about any other posession i have...i saved as many of those dresses as i could too. i still love to just hold them and imagine her sewing them, how excited i was while i waited for them to be finished.

i think the things a grandmother makes her granchildren are the most special things ever.

the best thing she did though was to teach me to sew...i wish she could be here to use my embroidery machine with me...we could have so much fun. she would be in awe, but i can guarantee you, she would have it figured out and would not be intimidate by computers either even though she was born in the 1800's.

well, i guess i am kind of off the subject.