Beautiful Old-World Quality Hemstitching - Once Adorned Baby Clothes

Though grandma always had to hold jobs outside her home, she was a fine dressmaker and decorative hemstitching with crochet or tatted edging was her specialty.
Today hemstitching with its Old World charm and quality is usually only found on antique heirloom clothing. Being the oldest of her five granddaughters, I remember grandma lovingly stitching layettes as each of her grandchildren was born.
As we grew older, grandma continued making us exquisite hemstitched undergarments with crochet lace edging until we reached our teens. It was then, we chose "grownup style" undergarments and grandma stopped making us the soft white cotton sli

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