Originally Posted by miriam
Originally Posted by Crossstitcher
Miriam, that was a nice story about your mom making do with what she had. I remember as a child my Aunt had a heavy wool coat and the story goes that she saw a coat in the shop window that she liked so sketched a picture of it then took an old Army or Navy blanket and made the coat.I don't know if she was not able to afford the coat or just wanted to make one.
Maybe she just knew it would be WARM those old blankets were warm specially with the right lining - if it was green it was probably Army if it was blue it was probably Navy. Mom sewed her wedding dress out of a surplus white silk parachute. The
front was all hand smocked and it had 200 covered buttons with loops down the back and a big long train. I should ask her what machine she did it on.
My dad was in the Air Force and worked in the hanger where they repacked parachutes. One time he brought a torn piece home with him and I still have it today.