Brenda, thank you for sharing that lovely story with us.
I have wonderful memories of my grandparents and now it is my turn to make memories with my grandsons.

I wore my denim overalls yesterday while I worked in the flower garden. They are quite comfortable. Thanks for reminding me about them. I had to hunt them up.

Brenda,
What a loving home from your Grandpa to be in the last years. Thanks a bunch for sharing it with us.
Lynn

Brenda that is such a touching story! Thanks for sharing a little look at your grandfather's personality. I loved it!

Brenda, I loved the story. It brought back memories of both my Grandfathers who both wore bib overalls. Grandpa Fleming was a farmer, a steel worker and a lay minister. He wore bibs for all those jobs but one. Grandpa Weader was a carpenter. He wore them too. Nice to have pictures of them in my head today, thanks to you! Lois

Brenda that is so sweet. How lovely to have that memory and thank you for sharing it with us.

This brought up many unexpected memories of my grandfather who always wore the striped bib overalls. He came to live with my DH and I for the last 5 years of his life (probably 25 years ago now). He had dementia and didn't remember much of anything, but he was able to interact with us. He had the habit of walking around the house and picking up pencils and/or pens and putting them in his front bib pocket so that at the end of the day he might have 8 or 10 of them in that pocket! Our friends would actually leave a pencil out for him and see how long it was before he put it in that pocket. When he died, my sisters and I decided the only thing he was ever comfortable in was those overalls, so that's what we dressed him in. At the beginning of the funeral the pockets were empty (except for a note I saw DH slip into one). By the end of the viewing there must have been 10 or 12 pencils in that top pocket. I knew then that my friends were never bothered by grandad when we took him to the beach or out to eat with the gang. Thanks for the memory.

Reetzbobeetz wrote:
I wouldn't want to give up the cashmere either if I were you. Just know that the threads mark you as a fiber artist and just add to your mystique.

Rita, wear your loose threads with pride! My colleagues in school 'de-thread' me almost every morning.

When I retire, I'm going back to bib overalls like we wore in the 60's. And denim granny jumpers!
This is a great piece of trivia, Thanks Lynn!

I guess I have the sewing wardrobe figured out. My normal attire of pajamas, with possibly a sweatshirt if its cold, don't pick up a lot of threads. For those of you who are worried about what my pajamas might consist of, they are simply flannel pajama pants with a T-shirt. Nothing risque!

Nancy
"Style is NOT my middle name"

Sewdreamy wrote:
No BJ, you could do that, I wouldn't be able to - Do you remember those plastic bibs for babies with the curled up lip at the bottom to catch the food that didn't make it into the babies mouth? We need something like that. But my biggest problem is the sleeves of my jumpers (sweaters) and cardigans. When am I ever going to learn not to wear cashmere when I am sewing

You could make a pair with a quilted bib, and attach some sort of thread catcher.

I know. I seem to take thread wherever I go... And I do get ribbed about it all the time