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Sewing Box, Christmas Tree Hat and Dramatic Clouds

1   Yesterday’s post about Granny’s tablecloth brought some interesting comments, particularly telling me that it wasn’t tatting around the edge but Filet Crochet. This took me to Granny’s beautiful old sewing box to look more closely at the very fine metal crochet hooks which I think may have been used for this delicate work. I don’t know what each item in the box is used for so if you do, please tell me!

The lid from Granny's sewing box

Inside the lid of Granny’s sewing box

Sewing box lid with Granny's initial, T,  embossed in gold

Sewing box lid with Granny’s initial, T, embossed in gold

Close ups of nos 5 and 7, tiny crochet hooks

Close ups of nos 5 and 7, tiny crochet hooks

 

2   The Christmas Tree hat arrived safely and was immediately worn by T. Her Dad did a fine job of trying to capture her image for me!

T putting on her new hat

T putting on her new hat

T wearing her Christmas Tree hat

T wearing her Christmas Tree hat

T pleased with her new hat

T pleased with her new hat

3    It’s been a dramatic weather day with squalls of hailstones followed by sunshine. I love the drama of this sky behind our house.

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Drama in the sky

 

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Hardy Cistus, Hyacinth Bulbs and Hearts in Filet Crochet

1 More rain but the Cistus keeps on flowering albeit getting a little battered. It’s still beautiful.

Cistus

2    I’ve just got the hyacinth bulbs out of their dark cupboard, the root systems are good and the tops are already greening up. They should be in flower early in the New Year.  They are growing in my Mum’s special glass bulb jars. She planted bulbs up every year, not for Christmas but for the dark days in January which is what I now also do .

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3   The tablecloth the glasses are sitting on was made by my Granny many, many years ago. The hearts all round the edges are tatting, I think and the flowers are embroidered.  What skills!

NB    My friend Shelagh in Vermont has told me, in a comment below, that the hearts are in filet crochet not tatting. Thank you, Shelagh.

Table cloth detail

Table cloth detail

Hearts in tatting made by my Granny c 1900

Hearts in tatting made by my Granny c 1900

 

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