What Did You Do Now

I so love the yummy colors of

red, white and blue.

When I was deciding what to create

for my bedroom colonial look,

I naturally thought of stockings.

Then I thought, why not make them from

antique coverlet pieces.

Now I would never cut up an antique one,

but found these pieces all on Ebay.

These pieces all had the center seam,

so all are very old indeed.

Now even though I would not cut up

an antique coverlet,

one of our vendors did...and when I found

out awhile ago that she did

I simply cringed.

It was a red and white 

early one in perfect condition.

She cut it up and made heart pillows out of it.

Although the pillows were cute,

I still would not have done that.

I have no idea if these Ebay sellers did the same,

but hoping they did not.

I worked on these at work.

This one is red with blue on one side.

While the reverse is blue with red.

Now for some history on stockings.

Stockings were an important part of Colonial dress.

They were knee high in length for both women and men.

Although everyone wore them

men's stockings were called leggings or spatterdashes.

Girls were expected to learn how to knit

stockings when they turned 4 years of age.

School was taught at home then.

Girls learned how to run a household.

Boys were taught what their fathers did.

At 14 children were considered to be an adult.

My granddaughter is 14.

I cannot even imagine her being considered

an adult...but the fact of the matter is,

back in the 1700's folks did not live as long

as we do now...so it was a normal action.

I will show you more of this Christmas area

in our bedroom in another post.

Just a tease for now.

This weekend will be one 

where I can do whatever I want to.

All I have to do is laundry and clean up.

Then I will be working on a new rabbit,

and a new snowman that I drew up.

What will the weekend find you doing?

Stocking Blessings To All!

Janice