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This item was a featured product on the German Dawanda homepage on 22.09.09
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ok this one goes with a story, i will try to keep it short:

Few weeks ago i found this pack of very old photos of my family. i knew about their existence because i had saw them years ago but i had completely forgot, so when i found them again i was utterly amazed, also because i developed this love for vintage and old things in the latest years.
browsing through all of them i found, among other beautiful images, the photo of this woman and luckily my father had wrote who she was on the back of the card. Aida was the first [or second? i can't remember and it's not specified] wife of my father's father and she died young, not long after the marriage, i can't recall from which disease [i believe my father told me the story when i was a kid..].
my grand father hadn't had much luck with wives... he had 3 and they all died quite young!
so, this photo could have been shot in the 20s or early 30's, because then my grand-father married again with Maria and my father was born in 1939. Maria too died giving birth to my father, who indeed was named after her [Mario], while one of his older sisters got the name after Aida.

Then i found this cotton in the house [my mother was a crocheter, she made tons of doilies and stuff and taught me the basics of crochet when i was a kid] and i crocheted a necklace following a vintage pattern [slightly modified].
when i saw the result i could only think of old garments and ancient lace, hence the photo of Aida popped in my mind and i decided to give her name to this delicate, feminine, vintage looking necklace.

so here it is Aida: thin yarn of creamy cotton, a midnight blue satin ribbon, a vintage creamy small button.

!!! INSTRUCTION !!! hand wash and lay to dry; due to the thin yarn and pattern, it crumples, to put it in shape pin it on a cushion and iron it. to make it last in shape, spray it with starch [the one for shirts] and then iron it.

!!! WARNING !!! the color you see might be slightly different from the original according with your monitor setting!

total length: 45cm

cotton, satin ribbon, plastic button

crochet

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