Looking back over my last few posts of last year, I realised that I didn’t write anything about the emotional turmoil that my family was going through at the end of October.
My Aunty Patty – sister to seamstress Aunty Bub and to my Dad (as well as Aunty Bonnie, Uncle Johnny and Uncle Bernie) – had been fighting lung cancer last year and sadly she passed away on October 23… which is my Dad’s birthday and last year was the day Uncle Johnny was getting married.
Of course there is never a good day, but this one was particularly unfortunate.
Her funeral was held on November 1 – which is my birthday… like I said, there’s never a good day.
Anyway, she was a wonderfully warm and happy person and I miss her dearly.
I recently caught up with my cousin Carol, Pat’s daughter, and she was so very, very kind as to give me one of Aunty Patty’s books – an innocuous looking red-covered book called The Universal Measure: The Golden Rule - Lutterloh
BUT… what an amazing bounty lies within its pages!!
There are some beautiful outfits in this book including, as you can see, wedding dresses, suits, day wear, dickies, collars and cuffs, overcoats, swimsuits, nightwear and childrens clothing.
The truly amazing thing though…?
Yep. 307 patterns included in the book!!! MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED!
It is an incredible book – not the least of which are the illustrations. The clothes are just beautiful.
The only bugger is that the Luttersloh rule isn’t in the book, which is what you use to scale up the patterns… but hey, I’m a creative person, I’ll make do. :0)
I have to confess, I’m feeling so conflicted right now – I have such an amazing family that I am so grateful for, but at the same time I am watching the devastating news footage coming in from Christchurch in New Zealand. My thoughts and prayers are with the city and indeed the entire country.
Australia and New Zealand have certainly been through some trying times of late with devastating floods, bushfires, hurricanes and now earthquakes.
Is Mother Nature trying to tell us something?
This post is dedicated to the memory of Catherine Patricia. 8/8/28 – 23/10/10
