He did most of his sales face to face with clients and since we lived in the Midwest, many of his “sales territories” were quite large. He would travel from Ohio to Nebraska and all the states in between. So, he was on the road a lot.Īnd for part of the summer, the rest of the family would join him. First, in a wood paneled station wagon where we loved to roll around in the “tippy back” as we called it (back in the day of no children’s seat belt laws) where we would lounge around or play with each other. Then later in a large Cutlass Ciera where I would claim a wheel well all to myself with a new book that my parents would buy each of us to read on the long hours of driving until we arrived at whatever hotel we would be sleeping at that night.Īs a child, these memories were so much fun. ![]() We slept in a different hotel every night, always with a pool that we would splash around in to tire us out, and where most of my siblings learned to swim and dive off diving boards. We would all share one small hotel room and then wake up the next morning and have a quick breakfast and be on the road again. Occasionally we would stop at historical sites along the route, American History has always been important to my dad, and then spend hours waiting outside warehouses and offices while having picnic lunches and playing while my dad made his sales calls. My mom would always bring a hand sewing project with her on the trip and it was usually cross stitch. She would sit under a tree or at the sides of pools, watching us play and doing her handwork. I can see her in my minds’ eye with her big plastic bag of cross stitch supplies–which included her large aida cloth roll and pattern books and her fisherman’s bait box filled with cardboard squares of all different colors of stranded cotton thread wrapped tightly for cross-stitching.Įach of the individual thread colors were labeled and placed in order. It was like a rainbow in a box and I loved to pull out and look at each of those squares of threads, neatly colored in their rows, although I was always careful not to get the colors out of order. One summer when we were old enough, my mom presented my sister and I our own set of stranded cotton thread and some cross stitch kits to make mini Christmas ornaments. ![]() Each kit had a small piece of cloth, some snips, a small hoop to hoop the fabric, small wood frames to hold the ornaments after they were made, and a small pattern book. Thanks so much for visiting! I am sure you will have a lot of fun with these cross stitch hand embroidery projects.She’d also made a supply of colored threads for us–although ours were made from cotton thread wound onto plastic pieces with a hole at the top. More cities and countries cross stitch patterns Please do not redistribute or sell my simple cross stitch designs. Ohio state map cross stitch pattern silhouette floral ornament design is for personal use only. If you are unhappy with your purchase, please contact me and I'm sure we can work it out together. In order to open PDF files you will need Adobe Reader or any other PDF file readers.ĭue to the nature of cross stitch pattern (digital file), no refunds can be made. This PDF file will be available through an automatic download as soon as transaction is completed.
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