My mom's got a yarn shop too! She taught me how to knit but I'd like to learn how to crochet. And it's always handy to have some yarn around even if you don't knit.

that is so cool!

my grandmother crocheted all sorts of things! each of her great grandchildren have a special baby blanket that she made for them... and in her home there was a doily under everything!

*hugs...

V.

Thank you for sharing this personnel history as again you paint a very wonderful picture of a living past, feelings, and memories.

I used to always despise as a child when the belt would come out, but now I am very thankful. I look at the generations that come after and I must confess that I must agree what punishment with teeth succeeds in creating a human being.

Though I must say there are plenty of video games that require a great deal of thinking. It’s true they aren’t the most popular of games, but a chess game is a chess game, and now there are digital like chess games far more complicated then chess.

you're more than welcome Helix... alas I believe it is the curse of each generation to think their childhood the best.

thank you too for reading....

V.

I loved this piece. As a youngster, I always enjoy seeing how at once similar and different lives are across the ages. It, like a knitted sweater, is a comforting and well-worn pattern.

very well said Dandin... I'm saving your prompt for lunch tonight...

V.

My foster mom knitted stuff for me and my sister, as well as sewed stuff too (mostly shirts). We were poor as dirt and once a year she'd purchases a bolt of whatever was cheapest and whatever yarn they really wanted to get rid of and that was school clothes for the year.

good memories Puppy....

*hugs...

V.

One of my favorite moments was when Morticia would unveil some new thing she was knitting.

With three sleeves.

Bunners

I remember that....

V.

I like Wallace & Grommit...

V.

oh lordy that would be hysterical...

V.

I wouldn't even begin to know where to start...

V.

Nice piece of history, what happened to the yarn shop, if I may ask?

my mother passed when I was about ten... so it went the way of was. Eventually the old gas station was torn down and the area landscaped.

This too shall pass...

V.

My mom used to crochet using yarn a good while back. She really only made blankets, however I think it'd be great to have a homemade knit cap for winter. I'm not quite so old that things were like they were in your youth but they weren't too terribly, remarkably different either. Well...they were but in an odd way, they also weren't. It tends to seem that way when you come from a family with humble income and conservative christian roots.

But that was a rather fun and even amusing story...ahh memories!

yes memories... ask you mother to make you one - I bet it would make her day.

V.

My mother knitted as well. She also did needlepoint and made some of our clothes. We weren't exactly poor but I did grow up wearing hand-me-downs from my older cousins or bought from a consignment shop. When I grew too large for my pants, the hems were lowered. I remember laying on my stomach in my parent's bedroom on summer days and playing with toy cars while mom would make or fix something on her sewing machine. Little did I suspect that decades later I would spend nine years earning my living in a sewing plant making kid's clothes and men's jackets.

A wonderful look into your past, Miss V. I always appreciate getting to know my FA friends a little better through stories like this. These stories are what make us who we are and without them, well, where would we be?

*hugs*

*smiles... I agree... where would we be?

you in a sewing plant? wow... that's cool...

V.

Ahh to walk down memory lane.. IN time we may well be back to that.

sometimes I think we would be better off for it Fem...

V.

A time before the nanny state...

absolutely...

I worry for the future generations...

V.

As do I. Things are set to fall apart at the seams and if we have a melt down how will most of these people cope? The facts are they can't and don't know how.

too true... seen in a movie it's great entertainment... viewed in real life it's never seen...

V.

Very nice story. Personally spinning wheels always fascinated me along with the different varieties and designs.

they seem to have always been used in really really old movies... but they served such a function...

V.

growing up my mom made our blankets. she'd spend days sewing 3x3 squares from a hodgepodge huge pile of them of all different patterns then knitting that to cover the 'guts' of the blanket. with us kids they would only last about a year or two and she'd have to start a new set. obviously none of them exist anymore. Looking back I find I've never since had a blanket as comfortable or stylish.
early in their marriage she actually used a (now antique) foot powered Singer of my great grandmothers, probably 50 years old at the time. didn't get an electric till the early 60's.

ooooooo... we are of the same 'age' Wirez. My grandmother had an old foot powered Singer for years. I think that style of blanket was called a patchwork quilt and way back when meant to use up the small left over pieces of material.

V.

yep, that's what she called it, I forgot. I have seen modern blankets that try to replicate the look, but no chance. Chinese slave labor can't replicate the love from weeks of labor from your own mother now I'm melancholy that I'll never have another one. could make one myself but I can't sew to save my life. come the zombie apocalypse I'll probably be naked before too long

poo... sewing is easy and it doesn't have to look perfect - it's a patchwork quilt...

V.

I don't know, every time I try to put a button back on it looks like crap