Hi Cuties! These are two more memory journals for Douglas’s wife and their oldest daughter. If you’ve ever finished a project that gave you T-R-O-U-B-L-E the whole time embroidering and broke out singing Hallelujah, I can relate! Jennifer’s wording gave me the devil. I had to size it down to fit in same space as Jeneane and Mandy’s so the writing is not as bold as theirs. That’s what gave me so much misery.
The flower design stitched perfectly every time. I was very tempted to stitch a red rose or pink but Douglas’s favorite flower was the yellow rose so I stuck with that for his memory.
Just to say the journal is made on the sewing machine because it’s a big composition book and I only have a 5x7 hoop. The rose design was a freebie I got, once upon a time, at oregonpatchworks and it’s file name says ADMAIN FREE- I wish I knew the designer to check out more designs. The wording for all I put together except for my name brand. One of the generous Cuties made it for me and I love it!
Oh another thing. Douglas always wore western shirts so I took one of the labels with his size and added to the back inside cover.
I also found an old movie ticket stub, in a shirt I cut up. (I think she bought me 48 shirts!) I sewed it on the cover too with clear vinyl over it. That shirt was old!-lol
I think they will be surprised they are getting more than just Jenny’s queen quilt! I know I have rambled on but I hope you all like what I have done to help preserve
Doug’s memory and hopefully bring them comfort.❤️Toogie
ps. You know when things go wrong you should just wait until another day? I worked so long resizing Jenny's wording and finally marking my center of fabric and patch, getting everything lined up. Then when I hooped and started to stitch, I forgot to match/move my hoop for center of design on my machine!-arg....I should have realized right then nothing was going to go right.
My Aunt was a Quaker. When they had blessed the food at table holding hands, they ten raised their hands up and down three times, saying "All love, all love, all love." That's how I feel about what you poured into these journals! Big distanced hug.
Thank you but I felt like I was spending time with Douglas while making them. I remembered a lot of his shirts, he wore when we did this and went there, etc.
Betsey, even though we don't do the hand motions or the saying we still hold hands at the table for prayer. I have to tell you this.
When I was growing up, it was called 'saying grace'. So when Gus was younger (he is only 5 now-lol) I asked him if he would like to say grace. Now a days we say 'Let's pray'. When I asked if he wanted to say grace, he looked at his mom then back at me and said GRACE-Nora got tickled and we tried not to laugh while mom explained I meant did he want to lead prayer.-lol
