Monday, July 26, 1926
Washed and did part of my ironing. Mama came out and brought a little red vase Ethel sent me and my quilt that just got back from the quilters. She had her hair water waved in Elwood and learned to do it a new way, she parts it on the side and does it low and it is real becoming. I think Ethel is trying to persuade her to box it but I hope she doesn’t, it is too pretty the way it is. I don’t lie to see white hair bobbed.
(It sounds like my great-grandmother (Mama) had a good visit in Elwood with her son Bur and his wife Ethel. What is a 'water wave'? I'm picturing her hair as wavy, but flat against her head, which is how I think of hair styles from the 1920's.
It's interesting that Grandma mentions getting a little red vase from Ethel. I have a little purple vase from Grandma, but no one knows how she came to have it. I would not mistake the one I have for red, so it is most likely not the same vase.
And I always thought Grandma did her own quilting. I wonder if she pieced her quilts together and then had someone else do the actually quilting?)
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Carol, I think it was fairly common to piece the quilts and have someone else do the actual quilting. I found this out from my mother-in-law (who I thought did her own quilting too). There were often groups of women from churches or clubs who did this quilting as a group and helped make some money for their organization.
ReplyDeleteIn the early '80s she sent one of mine to her quilting friends in Missouri to do for me. I think even back then it cost about $75.
You can still have your quilts 'professionaly' quilted by church quilt guilds & clubs, but not for $75.00. Try several hundred and a long wait. But if you've put a lot of time & money in your piecing you are probably willing to spend that kind of money. I machine quilt mine tho I'm not very good. Kathy (the older sister) is much much better at it, (no, she's not for hire)
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