…………..In my second floor office there is a lovely pale yellow ground floral couch. Jac and her mom decorated it with needlepoint pillows and a crochet throw……In front of the couch there is a large glass table…There’s also a large TV in this room facing the couch….My computer is also in this room…so I spend many hours in it…..The two pillows on the right are on two different chairs in the room.
……………..Each guest bedroom has needlepoint pillows made by Jac…..There are florals, but this time of year I add her Christmas ornaments and Jac’s Christmas bow pillow to bring the Holidays into each room!……..HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
………….in my second floor office rhere is a sneck chair and a floral couch plus a leather rocker, leather desk and chair and a leather bench that all belonged to Jac’s grandfather….They are covered in pillows!
…………………….Something many people didn’t know about Jac is that she was an AVID needlepoint maker!……She made countless pillows, and different objects, even a carpet, that are in almost every room of the house….Every night, as we watched TV, she would have her basket beside her with her yarns and beads and her chart and work away……She ordered many of her canvasses from England….She worked from BLANK canvasses….NOT painted ones, so she had to start from the center and count each stitch according to the chart!!!…..She even had me make a few pillows, and I have to say they came out very well. I even did some BEADED ones, but I just didn’t have the patience, and I couldn’t manage needle pointing and watching TV at the same time!!! Jac was great at multi tasking. The pillows in the photos are all in our living room…….All of the crochet throws in the pictures were made by Jac’s mom…..When she was finished, and after she blocked the pillow on a wooden board, we went into the city to buy trims and have a pillow maker finish it, but many times her mom would make the pillows up…..sometimes adding velvet borders the way many Victorian pillows were finished. The borders would show off the needlepoint beautifully. I love to have Jac’s pillows all over, and remember the many many evenings we sat together and talked and watched TV……as she needlepointed away.
………….All of the couches and armchairs have pillows……Jac was a busy girl!