Remembering Frances

Frances is nudging me lately...to crochet, to make rugs, to cut unloved garments into strips and do something! Her double pointed needles have been beckoning me from the Pringles can with the ivy wallpaper. I peeked today and found Grandpa's metal cigar tubes holding buttons, a thumb ruler for all those mittens, a piece of chalk (maybe for quilting) and a stubby pencil that I imagine her using on those little notebooks, or checkmarking patterns. She really did it all. No wonder I feel her looking over my shoulder---the date just jumped up and bit me a few days before.
Thanks for revealing the history of the shiver blanket. I always thought they were made with a marled yarn. Was mixing yarn with thread Grandma's own idea?