We Interrupt This Craft Week For A Special Tribute!

You would have to be completely isolated from TV, social media, and radio to have not heard the news of Dolly Parton’s passing yesterday. Tributes and memories are everywhere, so why not here?

I was a product of parents who loved country music – the old kind with Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff, and Grandpa Jones. Many Saturday nights the Grand Ole Opry could be heard on the radio in the house or the car. Late Saturday afternoons Porter Wagoner was on TV and most times you’d see the gal with the big blonde hair, the tight clothes, and hear her voice. I will be truthful – I did not care for what I refer to as the old country music, with the twangy and scooped pitches, but even then there was something about that gal that made me listen when she sang.

Fast forward years later, and I was an elementary music teacher. I incorporated children’s literature – specifically songs turned into book form – with my younger students and one of the favorite books was this one – “The Coat Of Many Colors”. I had to go dig thru my personal small library this morning to find my copy, and it seems fitting that today’s card is a patchwork one in honor of Dolly.

Simple, basic, and somewhat homespun, using the new sunflower DSP heading our way in September. To step it up a notch I ran it through the Softly woven embossing folder that is my favorite one currently. A simple greeting, a simple punch, and I called it done.

Earlier this month when we were with Megan in Wisconsin we were throwing around other ideas of where to take the girls for next year. Megan mentioned they would enjoy Dollywood, then she laughed and commented Dolly was our national treasure. Last week I was over at Evan’s reading books to Ben, and sure enough the book was one he received from the Imagination Station – Dolly’s reading program. She touched the lives of many, and yes, even the music teacher who didn’t care for the old country music loved to hear songs from Dolly. My favorite – Islands In The Stream.

So go make a patchwork project this week in honor of a life well lived. Well done good and faithful servant. She’ll be missed by all.