I bought a sunbonnet transfer pattern book five years ago.
I finally got around to trying it out.
I really like it, but this small amount of stitching represents HOURS of work.
Why did those sunbonnet girls have to go and pick so many flowers?!
Really.
This is what THGGM accomplished. He found the single curtain panel at Bed, Bath and Beyond. That store only had one. Saturday he went out looking for another, and found one!
Considering that these are the chairs we bought at a thrift store for $5 a piece, it's amazing all the different things he has tried with them.
I think this is the best thing that has happened to these chairs...so far.
(getting a good picture is impossible on a dreary rainy Monday...)
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I "remembered" today that I have a SCANNER so I found a photo of my Great-Grandpa to add to his story. I don't think you've been reading my blog long enough to have read the entry I wrote about his wife, who outlived him by several years. I 'tweaked' my blog and added a link to HER story at the end of it...I hope you'll read that one, too!
Your photos didn't load when I stopped by earlier so I never got to see the Sunbonnet stitching. When my eyes were "young" I used to do tons of embroidery...big landscape samplers, Christmas decorations, bibs...things of that nature. I always found it so relaxing but now I practically need a magnifying glass to see numbers in the phone book, ha! Your little Sunbonnet girls reminded me that I used to have a beautiful handmade quilt full of them back when I was a little girl. Some family friends gave it to me for a Christmas gift when I was around 8 years old. I treasured it, but by the time it went thru me and then my daughter, it wasn't much more than a rag and, sadly, it went the way of the dustbin.
The chairs look groovy. Groovy is how you describe something when you are ancient of days like me.
I think I would have to use a super dooper magnifying glass to do that kind of needlework - I admire you.
Notice that I didn't take a picture of me sewing. I have to have my glasses OFF and the hoop held up before my eyes and a bright light behind me.
I used to do a lot of counted cross-stitch. I can't do that at all anymore, but this I can if I just do a little bit at a time.
I'm working my way up to a picture that I admired at a friends house. It took a few years, but she was able to track it down for me. I need to practice some before I start that.
If, in fact, I do not go totally blind first!
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