Fernandina on Amelia Island, Florida
Late 1800s
Grandmother Peeper writes: From these here photographs Jane Marie helped put on this blog a hers, you can easy see what I dun. This is how it happened. I was asittin' on the front veranda at Dunnigan Manor. That's where I live. So, I saw some leaves blow across the drive and recalled a thing me and my ma dun when I was a wee child. I dumped my knittin' from the pine needle basket I wove when Marie was a babe, got myself down them steps some how, what with my bad feet hurtin' somethin' fierce this day, gathered all kind a different leaves and began my project ta make a table scarf.
I found a bit of muslin material I had left from cuttin' a test pattern fur Breelin's garden print dress last season. I drawed me a rectangle ta fit the table, long-ways, cut it out, hemmed the edges and then headed out ta Clover's workbench in the barn in the back. I brushed away the sawdust ta make it nice and clean. Then I laid out them leaves in as pretty a pattern as you ever seen. Very careful like, I laid the material over top, so as not to disturb the pattern with them leaves amovin'. After that, I took a hammer and pounded the juice outa them leaves. The leaf juice is what stains
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Go on now and make yourself a leaf pattern table cloth or use it fur a quilt backin'. It's very great fun fur adults and little ones. Just be atakin' care that nobody hits their finger with the hammer.
P.S. Even though this is a stained pattern, it is best ta iron the leaf marks so they don't fade much when ya get ta laundering your beautiful creation.
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