Originally Posted by crafty mutti
Love the Betty Crocker Homemaker award stories. I still have the little silver charm they gave us in 1974 with my special treasures! I learned to sew from my dad. He did upholstery work. I had to rip everything out. Just started sewing again after 40 years!!
I won the award the first year of the contest (1955) and the prize was a pin which was a wheat sheaf with a hanging engraved heart. My winning was such a shock and family joke to everyone that I never wore it. Years later as a care coordinator in a hospital that required my wearing dress clothes I wore that pin and received many compliments on it. I still have the Betty Crocker cook book that I won with the newspaper clipping about that my mom pasted inside the cover.