Old 07-20-2010, 01:36 PM
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grann of 6
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I do somewhat agree that we need to label these works of art we create. After all how would we know we had a famous painting if the artist hadn't signed it. I used to crochet doilies for people till that became a thing of the past. I had always wanted to crochet a tablecloth, so I started making the motifs, and spent most of my idle time in doctor's offices, hospital waiting rooms, and everywhere else working on these while my husband was undergoing cancer treatment. After he passed away I couldn't look at it for about 2 years. My daughter would ask about the tablecloth and I would just shrug. I finally got back to it and after 9 1/2 years I finished it. A lot of the motifs were different colors due to various stages of aging, so I tea dyed it, blocked it, and one year just before the family Thanksgiving dinner at my daughters lovely home I put it on her table. I didn't tell her about it. Next thing I know she calls me and asks where she can buy plastic to put over a lace tablecloth someone had placed on her table. She was thrilled with it. Anyhow, I made a large index card with the # of motifs, the date I started it and the date I finished it and some other witty things I thought of. She keeps it in a drawer near the tablecloth. A neighbor girl saw it and decided she wanted to marry my grandson so she could get the tablecloth; he was about 12 at the time.
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