THROWBACK THURSDAY

One of my creative outlets when I was a young Mom was sewing. I loved sewing outfits for my children. When January and Carol were little, I often made their outfits to match or at least out of the same material.

Here they are sitting on our "new" piano bench. The piano was a surprise for me when I returned home from the hospital with Dennis jr. A total surprise! Somehow, on our meager salary and Dad going to school full time and working full time, he managed to buy me a piano and have it waiting for me when I got home!

Words can't express how I loved that generous gesture. It was pretty old, and BIG, but had a nice tone and it was heaven to me to have that piano.

Here's another outfit I made for Easter 1958. The dresses were 'polished cotton', a new treatment that made the cotton shiney. I think we stole the show, don't you? 

I didn't make his outfit, but I did make the quilt!