Description: Needle point name tag with just the name and a border stitched into the canvas. It is soot damage but you can see it was some sort of green. The canvas was cream and backed with white paper and placed in a plastic sleeve with a pin on the back.
Story: I’m in the middle of writing and revising a book about my mom’s parents and there are a lot of stories to tell there about this event, but for here let me simply explain that my Grandma Schaefer had one brother and seven sisters. In 1982 a great reunion was planned and all but four people were able to attend. Each sister had a role to play. Auntie Elsie made the name tags. The great part is that they were color coded according to which Weitzel you were descended from. I imagine she used up a lot of scrap yarn. Auntie Teeny had no kids and her husband Micky stayed away so her tag would only need about a yard of yarn to stitch it. Larger families with lots of kids, like the Riegers or the Kosses, would need a lot more of the same color. The Schaefers were green. I think there were three different family greens. Ours was neither the prettiest shade nor the ugliest. To my eyes, it appeared that a lot of the yarn came from needle point projects she started in the 1970s.
