Do any former and present 4-H members belong to this forum?
#61
Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Canfield, Ohio
Posts: 74
I was in 4-h before you could join as my mother was the leader of our group. I got lots of ribbons. I still have the pinssomewhere.I sewed potholders aprons skirts blouses,dresses,even a suit in high school. My grandmother came to live eith us when I started highscooll. She was a professional seamstress. I even had a fower garden one year. Genny
#62
Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Canfield, Ohio
Posts: 74
I was in 4-h before you could join as my mother was the leader of our group. I got lots of ribbons. I still have the pinssomewhere.I sewed potholders aprons skirts blouses,dresses,even a suit in high school. My grandmother came to live eith us when I started highscooll. She was a professional seamstress. I even had a flower garden one year. Genny
#64
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Tavistock, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,056
Count me in! I got my Advanced Honours (18 projects - as far as I could go) then became a leader/volunteer. Have been a volunteer for 29 years. Thinking maybe next year will be the last one. Thirty is a nice round number. It's a great program - members learn a lot - and so the leaders. Got involved at the county level a few years ago.
Learned a great deal about cooking and foods, gardening, canning & preserving and sewing - anything you learned in 4-H was the reight/best way to do something. It is a great program.
Learned a great deal about cooking and foods, gardening, canning & preserving and sewing - anything you learned in 4-H was the reight/best way to do something. It is a great program.
#65
I was also in 4-H for several years during jr. high and high school. I showed sheep in the county fair. It was great fun and a wonderful learning experience. Oh the memories and the pictures. Sorry, none to share, lol. Toooo embarrassing.
#66
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 471
Oh my, now I have to chime in. My parents started our 4-H club and I was a member from age 8 to 17. My children were in 4-H and now I work in the local extension office that oversees the county's 4-H program. 4-H can be an awesome experience for everyone. Lots of good memories. Also some memories of last minute struggles to get the exhibit, talk or demonstration done. Good times.
#69
My mom was the advisor, of a sewing club, back when I was a kid, 40 years ago. Then a lady started a dog club, and I found another love. I won at the county level, and just missed first at the state.
Then, I was an advisor of a dog club with my daughter belonging. She happened to win at the state levelk, and amazed a lot of people because she had a basenji
Didn't have to teach her to sew though, she was on a bed giving blood for her upcoming surgery, and I asked her where she got the skirt sahe was wearing. Seems she bought a top at Goodwill, and made a skirt out of it (she's just a tiny thing) Guess who got a sewing machine as a gift right after her surgery?
I love 4-H
Then, I was an advisor of a dog club with my daughter belonging. She happened to win at the state levelk, and amazed a lot of people because she had a basenji
Didn't have to teach her to sew though, she was on a bed giving blood for her upcoming surgery, and I asked her where she got the skirt sahe was wearing. Seems she bought a top at Goodwill, and made a skirt out of it (she's just a tiny thing) Guess who got a sewing machine as a gift right after her surgery?
I love 4-H
#70
Member
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 49
I learned to sew in 4-H in the 1940's !! one leader had a treadle machine we used. I used my g'mother's machine she brought from the Netherlands in 1911. I still have the machine - a treasure !!! It is a table top-hand crank with a wooden case.
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