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@lind9650 wrote:

My paternal Grandmother taught me how to knit, crochet, sew a straight seam and darn socks. Also how to unravel an old hand-knit jumper and reuse the wool, or unpick the seams of an oversized dress and wash and iron the pieces to cut out a smaller dress for a girl.

 

All that teaching during WWII came in very handy when my first husband left me in 1963 with five children and no money to care for them. I used to go to OP shops and get some clothing for 40 or 50 cents a piece and reuse them to make clothes for my children.

 

How times have changed? I don't knit, crochet or sew for the great-grandchildren anymore. Their mothers want easy care, wash and wear clothing for their children. No hassles with handwashing or ironing in this modern world.

Handmade with a lot of love has no value anymore.

 

Erica

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I'm not so sure about that erica.  I knit things for the LPs (and I'm no knitter lol).  I have also given them beautiful handmade woollen winter coats (made by my niece).  They don't wear them everyday, but they are certainly valued and cared for by the mums. 

Air raid shelter. 

few years later having a permanent burn mark on my belly from the seat belt buckle ( boyfriends cars )

That's what you get for riding around naked........

Someone earlier mentioned ice blocks........McCracken's corner shop in Geelong used to sell them in a cone for threepence........They'd make a flavor, and freeze it in an ice-cube tray........

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@imastawka wrote:

Ooak, what a saucy girl.       Mini length school uniform!

 

Good Catholic girls had to kneel on the floor, and if the dress didn't touch the floor,

the nuns caned us.

 

 

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Well things have not changed there just..... who's doing the caning

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

few years later having a permanent burn mark on my belly from the seat belt buckle ( boyfriends cars )

 

That's what you get for riding around naked........

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hahaha  

prob should have given more details lol  

used to love the beach !!   bikini on there and back, no air con in the old bombs they had lol

Lind not sure where you are coming from, HEAPS  of people still buy hand made kids clothes  ...... I know cause my daughter makes them to sell.