TBT: A Mother's Love

During my years in England, I would often see a pattern or yarn and send it to my mother in the United States to make me something. I may have bombarded her with suggestions but she was getting very good quality yarn free and it was also very inexpensive for me to both buy and mail. The dollar was strong in those days and bought quite a bit in the late 60s and into the 70s.

Years later my mother told me this was one of her favorite patterns and she made it for herself in a multitude of colors. She found the mohair sweater idea for chilly nights when she and my father took a Florida vacation every winter. I never saw those sweaters before she died in 1981 but even if I had, I was not terribly interested in her knitting then. More my loss.

Today, I only have one sweater from her mohair collection,  one in almost the same blue as the pattern image. It has become my sweater to wear when I'm feeling sick and it went to the hospital with my last year when I had my knee replaced. It's a physical reminder of my mother's love.

Flashback Friday

My mother, knitting for me most likely, on D-Day. This was actually her 2nd wedding anniversary and she was living in Philadelphia, working for the Signal Corps, and expecting me on August 15th. Poor woman, she had to wait till September 2nd to have me. I'm told it was a terribly hot summer and she was ready to deliver, for sure. My Aunt told me she was so ready, that finally she took herself to the hospital, and walked and walked around outside, in the heat, and eventually ...there I was.

Flashback Friday

My mother and my two sons at Bethany Beach Delaware - early 70s I'd say.

Flashback Friday

This is a shot taken by my mother in April 1978 and I will guess it was in Hawaii or the Caribbean. I wasn't there and she is no longer alive...so a beach in 1978 it will have to remain.