*** Traffic Jam ***
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I want you to see the stitch I used to quilt this one. Here it is running on my Babylock Solari
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*** Traffic Other Colors I played with ***
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This quilt eventually went to my brother, so it lives in Florida now.
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My ideal quilty adventure would be an entire week of sewing with my guild members. Once a month we have an all day sew and have become good sewing buddies. An entire week where we could leave all the equipment in place (instead of lugging it there each day!) would be awesome
Hi Pat, in reference to games as a group outside, we played “Red Rover”, also “Wheel Barrow Races”, where someone walks on their hands & someone else drives by guiding their feet. Freeze Tag and some Mystery game outside @ night, like Clue. I was the youngest, so I didn’t really understand that one. During summer we were up until midnight playing! FUN!
I used to do a lot of counted cross stitch. Since I am now so busy quilting, when I usually sit to watch TV, I use this as my binding time. I would like to start doing more handwork by doing cross stitch again, as well as learn how to do hand appliqué because I love the look of it. You have chosen some very cute cross stitch patterns to do, and I love the color of cloth you are using.
I remember Red Rover and Life. Those were fun. I don’t know if I had a favorite game though. I don’t think I liked games much, because my older brother and sister always won. My grandfather made a board for playing Chinese checkers. It was a six sided star with holes for pegs (he used golf tees for pegs). I played Kings in the Corner with my grandmother. I did like playing a card game called “500” with my other grandparents and parents. We all played that once when we were “snowed in”. Even the neighbors were over and snowed in & played with us. Those weren’t really childhood games, I guess, but ones I liked. Monopoly was always fun, too. Now my own family likes to play Scrabble.
I love hand applique! I also cross stitch, knit, crochet, spin, weave. You name it!!! Sometimes I go for a long time doing one thing. Sometimes I have so many things going on I don’t feel like I’m making much headway. Lately quilting (piecing) is my go to. The 15 minute tidying up thing has definitely helped though, Thanks.
My favorite board game was yahtzee. Love my jump rope and pogo stick. For fun love to play with paper dolls and make doll clothes. And love to read.
I like to cross stitch, embroider and hand applique. My aunt taught me when I was a little girl she opened my mind to a world of creativity and I owe her my love of quilting as well. We would make quilts for the unwed mom’s in the 70’s. I do more of the embroidery right now I am working on a quilt for a grand child.
Fun to read others’ stories! I loved jacks and paper dolls, jump rope and bicycling. I was very sick with kidney disease before antibiotics and I had no siblings so my childhood was isolated, and limited because of constant medical bills, but I still always had something to do. Learned to knit and sew early on. Loved to listen to radio stories, even the soaps, and always Saturday morning opera from the Met. And books, always books!
What about jump rope??? I loved both single and group jump roping. We’d have contests to see how long you could jump before messing up. And double Dutch jump rope!! So much fun!!!!
I had several cousins that lived near me and we would play kick the can late in the summer evenings right before the sun went down. We all had to be home before the street lights came on! Sometimes we would even get permission to play after dark which was fun but a little scary!!
Fun times and Fun Memories
We spent SO much time outside as kids! A favorite was Stone Teacher. The teacher would hide a stone in his/her hand behind their back. The students sat on the ground in front of a flight of porch steps. The teacher would offer their 2 hands to each student in turn. If the student guessed the correct hand, they moved up a grade & sat on the next step up. A wrong guess, you ‘repeated’ the grade. The first to the top of the stairs graduated as the winner. Such a simple game in simpler times. I taught my kids when they were elementary school age and they & their friends would play on our local school steps. Wish more kids had the opportunity to have more simple times.
My favorite board game was Chinese Checkers.
My BFF and I also loved to play school. We would usually get to play together on Sat. mornings, and we would play school for hours. We both are retired elementary teachers.
When I was a little kid my favorite was playing house with my best friend. I am short and she is very tall so she always had to be the dad. Dad’s name, of course, was Ricky Nelson! We loved Ozzie and Harriet. From about 7th grade on my sisters and I played Game of the States. We learned just about everything about every state – geography, climate, vegetation, inventors, history, etc. and had fun learning it.
There were so many games because we were always outside. A few of the ones I remember are Red Rover, Jacks, Pick-up sticks, leap frog, jump rope and of course, dress-up. A few of these were good for indoors or outdoors. But of course when we HAD to be indoors we had board and card games, i.e. Fish, Old Maid, Monopoly, and Rummy. Good old days…
Just wanted to let you know I’ve started my shoebox to collect squares for a Traffic Jam quilt. Love how simple and pretty it is! Also want to thank you for the discount on the Oliso mini iron. I love it💕
My favorite memory growing up, was playing Monopoly everyday after school with my older brothers and my sister. One game would last for a little more than three weeks. I learned a lot about having to borrow money because I didn’t know when the quit spending!!
Now the board game of choice is Ticket to Ride. I need to invest in some supplemental packs, so we can travel the world by train.
My favorite outdoor game as a child was tetherball. We tied the ball to a pole
I remember playing JAX with my girlfriends. We could go on for hours and it was a very fun and quiet game.
Pat, tonight when riding in the car I was reminded of a game we played in the car, we taught our grandsons, corners! Sitting in the backseat leaning with each curve and turn. Inevitably someone in the backseat is getting squished. Sometimes it would turn into a fight in the backseat, but mostly just a lot of laughs. Our grandsons told us it was a great game. They laughed and said they were going to start playing the game all the time. We’ll see if our daughter thanks us or says, “what where you thinking mom?”
I used to skate on the sidewalks. Remember the clamp on skates with the skate keys? If you didn’t get the clamps tight, or you forgot to check the clamps periodically, the crazy things would come loose, your shoes would come out of them and you would bust it! Many skinned up places graced my knees for many years! And, I must have ridden my bike 2,000 miles when I was a kid. Grew up outside of Houston and many of our roads were made of oyster shells, they were the half shell that only broke up after several years of cars driving on them — we used to run on them barefoot and never slowed down! Today, it hurts my feet to even think of walking on that stuff! Kids were tough in those days! Wish I still had a little of that GRIT!
Hi Pat.
Did you ever hear of the game Chinese jump rope, with the elastic that people put on the ankles and the third person played the game. Anyone play that as a kid, what about kick the can. Lol. Fun to remember huh ? Curious if you played it.
My dad built stilts for all of us and our friends. We used to have races. Also would hide secreta message/prize in the pasture. 2 teams and clues. We all rode our horses to do this. We had to race to the barn with the final prize.
Growing up by a lake we did lots of swimming and boating. We also played tennis and bike riding. Monopoly was my favorite board game.
Oh my, the memories of playing “duck duck goose”, musical chairs, “go fish”, Slap the Jack card game. Outside we played “ghost” with the neighbor’s kids until long after dark, seeing who could catch the most “fireflies” (lightening bugs). Thanks for bringing these back to mind!!
favourite childhood games : Hopscotch, What’s the time Mr Wolf, Knuckles (Jacks)
fun memories Jo!
that sounds like a long throw!
great times!
pogo sticks!
such great memories and love you adore vintage fashion!
great memories!
that is neat!
haha.. so worth it!
what fun!
With Dan Rather?? Did you go to school together?
it was meant to be!
I loved gathering with my cousins on the farm. After milking and egg gathering, we would play hide and seek and then my favorite, Simon Says.
Growing up on the farm we played a lot of Aunty I Over! One or more on each side of a granary. One kid would throw a ball over the roof, yell “Aunty I Over”, and the person on the opposite side had to catch it.
Outside we played freeze tag, mother may I, work-up and fly-up (both baseball games), tether ball, kickball. We were outside a lot!!! Inside we played checkers, monopoly, stratego, and risk, among many others.
Inside board game would have to be Parchesi while outside we played stick ball, or jumped on a pogo stick. Good times to remember! Thanks, Pat.
My best memories of playing games are of conquering tether ball in 4th grade elementary school (where I broke two pair of eyeglasses in one year) and playing charades with my three sisters. We’d dress up in Grandmothers old clothes (that always smelled funky from storing them in the fall-out shelter) and her crazy lace up witchy looking shoes. Now I wear contact lens and adore vintage fashions lol.
My favorite childhood game was kick the can. My cousins would come over
And we would be outside for hours playing ! The good old days!
My favorite childhood game was Flinch. It is a card game. Am still playing it with my children and grandchildren.
Hahahahaha I can remember playing doorbell ditch !! I got grounded to my yard after that sleepover!! We were ringing and running to hide needless to say I got in trouble!!!
I have so many happy memories playing the neighborhood-wide Ghost game. Basically it was hide and seek on a very large scale: the whole neighborhood! We started after sundown, probably why we called it Ghost. There was a lot of running, tagging, trying to get to the safe tree. Looking back I realize we were in really good shape, all that exercise!
Hi Pat
I played a lot of board games with my sister (i.e. Monopoly and Trouble)but I think my favorite game was mystery date. I did a lot of hula hooping and we would also tie a pantyhose leg around one leg with a tennis ball stuffed on the bottom and them we would swing our leg around and jump over the part that had the tennis ball in it.
Thanks for reminding me of those times.
I even played Monopoly with Dan Rather when I was a kid.
Hi Pat!
About your question regarding favorite childhood games! So, my favorite board game was called “Payday” and funny, I grew up and now I run the payroll operation for a very large NOVA public school system (you might know the one). But my favorite outdoor recess game was four square, remember? with the bouncy rubber ball? That was really fun!