Old-Fashioned Pink Saturday

My Mother was 85 years old when she passed on. She was an old-fashioned mother, even though the majority of my growing up years were in the 1970's, even then she was old-fashioned compared to other mothers.
One thing that imprinted this old-fashionedness on her was the fact that she ALWAYS wore a dress and ALWAYS wore an apron...

(this photo is before the 1970's though!)

I thought all Mothers wore dresses and aprons every day for a LONG TIME!

I thought all mothers packed their children's lunches, fed their husbands two egg breakfasts

and made homemade rolls and spaghetti for dinner...

When my Mother passed, I wasn't there when my sisters cleaned out our family home, but they did know that I would love the handmade, simple crafts they found...

A bag full of unfinished quilt pieces ready to be made into a warm quilt...

and also my sister found about 12 different old-fashioned girls stitched and put aside long ago,

just waiting to be made into a quilt...

The details are what captured my own old-fashioned girl within...

flowers and parasols...

I grew up also in a small country church where the women had gatherings

to quilt, to have country fairs and vacation bible schools.

It must be why, even though I'm far from old-fashioned, I feel

an affinity with the humbleness, the simplicity of a time
I never really knew...

I'm drawn to stories of women who create,

who knit, who quilt, who grew up on the prairie!

I just in fact finished this book...

I loved the history within the pages and the visual of sitting down with

needle, fabric and thread and creating something to warm their beds and to

create an heirloom!

I love the thriftiness of these "girls"

I've never decided what to do with them...

should they be in a quilt or framed individually?

What would you do with these treasures?

I hope you have a wonderful PINK SATURDAY

Maybe you can wrap up in a quilt handmade and handed down to you while

you visit all the Pink Saturday gals

and my friend Laurie at Laurie's Charming Designs

I'd love too to hear what your heirlooms are, simple or grand

modern or old-fashioned!