When - June 1974
Where - Holiday Park Campground - Destin Beach, Florida
What - Embroidered Shoes - Made by Me
In 1974 on a summer camping trip to Destin, Florida with my family, my sister Linda & I sat on a picnic table & spent our summer days at Holiday Park Campground embroidering shoes. We made the tops out of muslin & embroidered colorful flowers on them. Then we took the tops off of our old Dr. Scholl's sandals & replaced them with our newly embroidered tops!
Needless to say, from looking at them I wore mine to pieces. Chips in the wood & very dirty!
I washed the tops & was amazed that they cleaned up very well ~ and they are now attached to a brand new pair of Dr. Scholl's that I found at a garage sale.
36 years later they are good as new! Linda recently wrote on her blog that she is embroidering a bedspread! Wow - So now I think I must look for a new embroidery project to do!
36 years later they are good as new! Linda recently wrote on her blog that she is embroidering a bedspread! Wow - So now I think I must look for a new embroidery project to do!
I love thinking of summer memories from the past just as much as I love making new ones! I hope everyone is having a GREAT SUMMER!!! Kathy xoxo
3 comments:
Those are so pretty! You are SOOOO CRAFTY!
okay, so where are my shoes? i wonder what happened to them?????
it just took me about 4 hours to embroider one corner of the 4 sided square that will become a bedspread. that is a whole lot of work i have to do!!!
lol......I don't know girl - you know ME - I'm the packrat & keep everything! After you finish the bedspread you will have to make a new pair of zapatas!!!
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