Braggin' on Grandma

[sunnywolfgar]

I do beleive this is macrame, it sure looks like macrame to me. She did a great job on them.

I used to macrame the hanging table kind.

sunnywolfgar

[Sue89]

OOPS! ...and thanks. I guess that is macrame. Once I started searching for "macrame table" I was finally able to find a few examples online that were similar. My grandfather had always called it crocheted, and I thought the body of it looked a bit like solomon's knots. But then, I know nothing about macrame.

 

So just to show that she really was a prolific crocheter, here's another old photo showing one of her bedspreads. I think you can also see some of her pillows and part of a table runner/doily thingy.

 

[Aelita]

Wow! Those are awesome!

[JessR]

Oh wow that's too cool!

[lakota85usa]

I am speechless. They are totally beautiful. If you hadn't said that they were crocheted, you would think they were made of wood or something. Your grandmother was truly an artist. Thank you for sharing these masterpieces.

 

Pam

[champygirl]

Very neat.

[breeze530]

OOPS! ...and thanks. I guess that is macrame. Once I started searching for "macrame table" I was finally able to find a few examples online that were similar. My grandfather had always called it crocheted, and I thought the body of it looked a bit like solomon's knots. But then, I know nothing about macrame.

 

So just to show that she really was a prolific crocheter, here's another old photo showing of one of her bedspreads. I think you can also see some of her pillows and part of a table runner/doily thingy.

 

 

 

WOW!!! I love the bedspread, pillows & everything. What a talented lady. And she even macra. to boot! It looks like you've got crochet in your genes. My lifetime goal is to make just one of those bedspreads.

[froggy]

Way to go GrandMa:) I would love to some day be able to have all that talent!

[irikel]

Wow..that bedspread is beautiful...I read you mentioned your grandfather visiting from Puerto Rico...are you from Puerto Rico??? What part are you guys from?? I live here in Puerto Rico...Im from Ponce.

[LadyintheMoon]

The tables are great no matter how they were made, but that bedspread.. that HUGE thing with thread?! And it's soooo beautiful! I can tell you're really proud of her, and that's awesome. I would be, too!

[Grammie Essa]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jneuman88]

Wow! I've never seen anything like that ... I would love to have watched her making them. Very cool! Are the tables still in use today?

[tobybob]

That bedspread is just beautiful! My grandma crocheted with thread for many years before she moved onto yarn. She made many doilies, hotpad (she crocheted over popbottle and beer bottle caps). All the girls in the family received these items as gifts every year for Christmas.

Your grandma did a gret job on the tables to.

[Kiirs]

That is really awesome!!

[Sue89]

Thanks, everyone! I do remain in awe of her crochet talent. I don't know if I'll ever have the patience to make one of those big bedspreads like she did. I'm happiest when I can finish a project the same day I start it. I don't know what happened to those tables. When my grandparents moved here in the early 90's they bought all new furniture, so I never got to see the tables in person.

 

Irikel, I'm not from PR, but all four of my grandparents were. This grandmother and grandfather (my mother's parents) were both originally from Humacao, and my father's parents were both originally from Ponce although they met in New York. I think I still have some distant relatives in Ponce that I've never met.

[SPRAT605]

The tables are way groovy! And the bedspread is unbelivable! they are all beautiful!

[msmusic]

I hope someone in the family is designated to pass those down .... they are stunning!

[laurawithchild]

Wow!