From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Aug 31 17:38:09 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7VNc9jb030414; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:38:09 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7VNc7Nm026736 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:38:08 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7VKvVFI031510 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:31 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7VKvV4e031509 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:31 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7VHZbFI031063 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:35:38 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7VKG3Ts026700 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:16:03 -0600 X-Envelope-From: marilyneb@gmail.com Thu Aug 31 14:16:03 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7VKG3jb026689 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:16:03 -0600 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7VKFv23018683 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:15:58 -0600 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so727659uge for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:15:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=F/E5IN0BzIrrHJDcS3pkKHUZZoBlsPtiUWZPyCYps+QEM2IDMnGe7p+bDu092XHFiGq93dJKY8rkS17gGtNV5x4wNbwxFhP2J1YsTO4p1Lqj/9LuGu+Sm+EdBK0nefnKY2++a7kMxIJjTvhsIpPQnvNBjpp6/sV96GW3plSqJrg= Received: by 10.66.219.11 with SMTP id r11mr763099ugg; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.236.16 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <65d66f240608311315q5efd4feau27e5b02b0fdd0567@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:15:56 -0500 From: "marilyn e brown" To: "Judy Brown" Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] 105 year old christening gown Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20060829145259.0233fe30@pop.win.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <5.2.0.9.2.20060829145259.0233fe30@pop.win.org> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Just a note to let you know that was a woderful and inspirational story. Reminds me of a Chicken Soup Tale. Marilyne On 8/29/06, Judy Brown wrote: > > This is to all who helped me with suggestions on how to repair a 105 year > old christening gown that my sister-in-law tried to repair with super > glue. I wanted to let you know what happened with the gown. > I kept putting off trying to repair it, just couldn't face the possibility > that the gown was ruined. A month before my grandson was to be baptized, > I > had gone into my daughter's old bedroom, now my genealogy room, to get > something from the walk in closet. I turned around to leave, and spotted > a > piece of fabric hanging over the edge of a shelf. Pulling it down, I > discovered that it was the blouse that my grandmother had given to my > daughter to wear for a Girl Scout fashion show to earn a badge. It was > long sleeved, and had lace on the cuffs. I cut the lace from the cuffs > leaving the stitching intact for extra stability and pieced it to the yoke > of the gown, front and back. When I finished piecing the lace, there was, > maybe, a quarter inch of lace remaining. I hand sewed the lace to the > gown, and the color of the cuff lace is almost identical to the lace on > the > gown. It is difficult to see where the repair was made. I have saved the > blouse, will pack it with the gown, just in case. > > Matthew Edward was able to wear his great, great grandmother's gown on > August 20, 2006. > > Again, I would like to thank everyone who gave support and suggestions to > me. I have saved them all, they will also be packed with the gown so the > history of the gown is more complete. > > Judy Brown > P.S. I guess Grandma was watching over me through all of this. :). > >