This is last year’s photo of Aunt Rheeta sewing on my beloved Brother Quattro. She is loving this year’s upgrade to The Dream Machine.
She was at it again. My dear Aunt Rheeta arrived from frigid Indiana for a 2-week vacation in the warmth and sun of central Florida. Unfortunately, she landed on a cold, rainy day and the weather hardly improved for the first week. She wore a polar fleece pullover every day so I did not take a picture of her at the sewing machine. I’m pretty sure the Florida Bureau of Tourism blocks such photos from the internet.
We were so, sew busy! After she expressed interest in touring historic DeBary Hall, I said I would love to take her. Then she decided that she would rather keep on sewing! That’s my kinda gal! Sew, we did! In fact, we were so busy that we didn’t take time for a current photo of her at my new Dream Machine which she loved immediately.
Aunt Rheeta arrived with her suitcase tightly packed with projects for us to work on. At the top of her priority list were a few graduation gifts for her granddaughter, a rising freshman at Texas A&M.
We didn’t worry about the wrinkles because the fleece was soon to be tightly packed in Rheeta’s suitcase. Time for a dryer tumble later.
Adriana will use this polar fleece throw at football games. Rheeta made an identical fleece for Alexa, Adriana’s older sister, a rising junior also at Texas A&M. That stadium blanket has seen 2 years of heavy wear. It’s likely this one will be just as useful.
Then Rheeta embroidered dishtowels. As Adriana will be sharing an apartment with hometown friends, these instructive kitchen linens will be loving reminders from her grandmother. Each of these dishtowel designs are from OESD’s Hand Lettered Sayings collection.
The suggestion is that it’s possible for Adriana to learn to cook, improving the standard college student menu. And she will surely achieve some things that seem impossible. That’s what her Meemaw is telling her.
