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Since St. Patrick's Day is approaching, the Etsybloggers Blog Carnival topic was to write about St Paddy's day memories or traditions. For me, memories of the day are all wrapped up in my elementary school days. We never took much note of St Patrick's day in my family, but I loved the "green day" at school. I was careful to wear green on that day, I didn't want to be embarrassed because I had forgotten. And I didn't want to get pinched by my classmates for not wearing green. I didn't know why we wore green for the longest time. Learning about the saint and Ireland was interesting, experiencing corned beef with cabbage was different, and looking for four leaf clovers became a passion in my yard. But the best thing about the holiday for me now is that, of all things, I have a grandson with the name of Padraic, which is the Middle Welsh way of spelling Patrick. We call him "Paddy." So, I though I might feature my grandson in honor of St. Paddy's day!
Lately, I've been doing something a little different, creatively, besides my sewing. I've done embroidery before, but hadn't done very much of it in a year or two. I found some embroidery hoops in various sizes attached to a hanger in the back of my closet! I guess they have been hanging there for quite a while. 
We were down by the rivers (where the Willamette and the Clackamas Rivers run together) and saw him right in front of us--not 15 feet away. I was in my car, so I snapped some pictures!
I was given some old quilt tops, blocks, and quilters magazines by an elderly lady, last year. I discovered that in the bottom of the box were some old feedsacks. I was delighted to get them! Just to see them was a treat! They were a product of the 1800's and early 1900's. Women used them, after their product contents--like flour, chicken feed, and sugar---were gone, to make all kinds of things for home, even undies! I had heard about feedsacks for years, seen quilts made from feedsack fabrics, but never owned one of these treasures! One, I was given, was a sugar sack, one a flour sack and a couple of others were no longer distinguishable, probably because recipes used to circulate among the ladies for removal of the advertising on the fabric. (So prairie pantaloons, or other homemade items made from them would not have writing on them!) This happened until Richard Peek of the Percy Kent Bag Company made a trip to New York to see designers. He wanted to add prints to the fabrics so customers would want them MORE! Feed sacks were a coveted new item , especially in the 1930's. The craze finally subsided in the 1950's when printed calicos became more readily available in yardage shops and there was less of a tendency to be frugal. 
