C4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 19,1980
(Continued from Page C 2)
the frame, Mary Ann did the actual work
of framing. She said, “ I tried a new
technique. I used layers of cheescloth to
achieve a puffy look.”
When asked how long it took her to
complete the design, Mary Am said with a
laugh, “a lot of naps.” Needlepoint takes a
lot of concentration.” She said she began it
last May, but took off over the summer for
canning and freezing.
Last year at the Farm Show Mary Am
took a first place with a needlepoint bell
pull which she had designed as a wedding
gift for her brother and sister-in-law. It
featured all the information about the
wedding, and on the back side it had
pertinent information about its creation.
Needlepoint is not Mary Ann's only
interest. She also crotchets, knits and does
counted cross-stitch.
She said, “I really started knitting in
1966.1 went to the hospital, got snowed in
and had nothing to do. When I went back in
Apnl I took knitting with me. I started
domg it, and never took classes and no one
taught me.”
.She said in 1970 she was sick and wasn’t
working so she did more needlework. At
that point she did three beautiful afghans
in the afghan stitch, with a design worked
in cross-stitch.
About her needlework, Mary Ann says
she usually has several projects going at
once and adds, “I’d like to get at it every
day, but I don’t always so it. Each year I
plan to make Darnel something for his
birthday, and I make some of my
Christmas gifts. This year I just happened
to see some wreaths, and I made five and
gave four of them away.”
Mary Ann added, “I always have things
m my mind. I have very few things in my
own home that I’ve done - I’ve given
almost everything away.”
Although she says that needlework is her
favorite form of work, she adds, “I really
enjoy counted cross-stitch, and I would
like to do one of the very first prayer
Darnel ever made. I wrote it down. Next
year I would like to make a latch hook
panda for his birthday.” Lucky Daniel in
past years has received a personalized
afghan and a cross-stitch grow chart.
Mary Ann also made a beautiful counted
cross-stitch bellpull announcement of
Daniel’s birth.
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place at the Farm Show with this bell
pull she created for her brother and
sister-in-law.
Mary Ann says she likes to do different
stitches, adding, “Some day I hope to draw
our house m sampler form I want to leam
some more stitches first. ’ ’
She enjoys designing her own things, and
often designs wedding gifts. “Designing
takes me more time than domg it. I must
draw the design on graf paper first,” she
states
Asked how she chooses her projects,
Mary Ann, says, “I think of people I want
to do things for. I have no set pattern. I
hope to knit more this year.” She admits
that Winter is a good tune to work on
needlework projects.
Mary Ann is currently crotchetmg a vest
for her mother, and is finishing a project
from a class she took to help her expand
her knowledge of stitches.
Mary Ann, who has been married for ten
years, works one day a week as a
beautician at Calvary Fellowship Homes,
Lancaster. She enjoys going to Roots
Country Auction with Darnel and a
neighbor, and is a member of Calvary
Independent Church where she teaches
sixth grade girls.
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and helped work in the tobacco and
potatoes.
When making bridal gowns, Mrs.
Metzler recalls that she bought patterns,
and sometimes she combmed patterns. “I
tned to make the dresses the way they
wanted them. The girls bought the fabric.
Sometimes I made for the whole wedding
party, including mothers and
bridesmaids.”
One of the changes in bridal dresses over
the years is that “they got long,” Mrs.
Metzler says. She said the change to longer
gowns came “after the War,” and that
weddings became “more fancy. Weddings
got bigger.”
In all her sewing, which mcluded coats,
Mrs. Metzler says with a smile, “I always
came last.”
- Asked whether she preferred sewing by
machine or by hand, Mrs. Metzler an
swered, “It doesn’t matter. I just liked
sewing.” She made wedding dresses for
both her daughters, but her youngest
daughter, Geraldine's, was the last gown
she made.
Although she gave up sewing for others,
Ella didn’t stop learning. When she was
nearly sixty, she and her daughter
Dorothy took adult lessons at Hempfield
High School and learned to make
ceramics. She said, “I made 26 dolls, and I
sold some and gave some away.” The two
dolls she has with her at Landis Homes are
dressed in lovely homemade calico
dresses, complete with lace, as well as
lace-trimmed pantaloons and petticoats.
She said, “I have a lot of dress materials
left over. I was going to do a lot of things
when I grow old.”
In ceramics, Ella Mae also made
chickens on nests, pitchers and bullfrogs.
Her experience in ceramics allows her to
lend a helping hand with ceramics at
Landis Homes. Even without her sight she
is able to clean greenware, and can feel the
spots that need work with her fmgers.
She enjoyed, ceramics so much that she
set a goal one year to make a piece for
each week of the year. “I had to limit
myself because I ran out of space to keep
them.”
Another interest of Ella Mae’s which she
took up late in life is painting. She and
Dorothy took painting classes at Hemp
field in 1971, and she has several of her
paintings in her room. One is of their
home, one of the Hunsicker covered bridge
and one of the Pmetown covered bridge.
Ella Mae also learned to do decoupage
through a course at the Farm and Home
Center, and she learned to do tole painting.
She said, ‘ ‘I didn’t do too much because my
eyesight failed. I enjoyed doing it.”
Ella Mae reports that she was very
proud when her grandson made himself a
shirt. She says, “I didn’t know he was
going to do it. He just bought the pattern
and material and went to work.”
When Mrs. Metzler was 15 she started
making scrapbooks, a hobby she contmued
all her life. “I made it all about myself
with Christmas cards and weddings. Then
I did one with newspaper items, about
local things that happened. I did one
scrapbook each year with births and
deaths, and pictures of (Hurricane)
Agnes Anything I was acquainted with I
put in ”
and subscribed to magazines I made
scrapbooks of rooms m magazines.”
In June, Mr. and Mrs. Metzler
celebrated their 50th wedding an
niversary.
For Ella Mae, her life has been full and
fulfilling. The ribbon she won at the Farm
Show was a fitting tribute to her skill as a
seamstress and her interest in the com
munity around her.