FREE: Tatting Pattern Books 1909 by Priscilla

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This little picture of e is from the cover of one of my patterns. I knitted all that: sweater coatk, hat, mittens, scarf and purse. I made the sweater for mom when she was in a nursing home after a stroke. Shortly after I gave it to her I inherited it back. She did like it but soon she didn't even know who I was. My father died whe4n I was in 8th grade and mom and I did whatever needed to be done since then. That's why the car repairs, and household fixing. My brother was only in first grade then but he learned quickly too. When there is no one else to do it, you just have to do it.

You sound a lot like me. Mom taught me to embroider and crochet at age 7. I started sewing as soon as I was tall enough for my feet to reach the treadle. I made my own doll clothes when I was still playing with dolls. I never met a craft that I didn't try it. I taught myself knitting when I was in college so I could make my firtst Christmas stocking just because it was so pretty. All the Nancy's Nits patterns are my own designs. So are the crochet, sew, plastic canvas ones. I do have the oldies which are not my own. too. I also have done woodwork, minor car stuff, fix electric appliances and toilets.

Tatting is about the only thing I don't do. Maybe I'll try it when I have the time. I have 5 tatting books total. They are so hard to find and no one seems to have as many as I do. I believe in keeping these things alive too.

One day mom was standing on a chair in the closet to fix a light. I was there to hand her things. Little brother said "Why don't you ever let me do things like that?" She got down off the chair and handed him the screwdriver. She never had to do it again. If he wasn't home and it was important I did it too. She only watched that we turned the juice off in the basement. The church rummage sale had a lot of appliances and they got some that didn't work when tested and they put them in a box not for sale. Mom asked for them and came home with a dozen or so. He fixed them all. I still do lamp cords and small stuff. I don't climb ladders though. When I was in college the other girls went home with 2 suitcases on holidays. One was clothes to wear and one was clothes for their moms to mend. Ha! I had packed a few spools of thread needles etd. I did my own. I once was driving to the grocery store and as I went down the highway a light changed and I almost hit the car in front of me. Lucky I was going slow. My brakes went to the floorboards. I very slowly and carefully drove up the next block to the K Mart store and parked safely away from others. I went in and bought a can of brake fluid and filled the resevoir right there in the parking lot. One of my cousins, a boy in his teens used to help his father with cars. He tried to help my mom one time. Her car wouldn't start. He said he would pour some gas in it into the carburetor. Mom was watching him and had to stop him when he was going to pour it in the radiator! She didn't do much with cars, but she knew that. Once we had a car that almost burned oil faster than gas. Mom and I carried gallons of oil and a funnel with us and we even drove 3 or 4 hundred miles stopping to add oil. You gotta do what you gotta do.