My parents came for a visit this last couple of weeks. We had a great time. We went and seen so much, but, of course, we found some time to sew, embroidery mostly. My mother is an excellent seamstress, but do to time, we purchased the shirts and did the embroidery. We had a blast. Mom collects nativity's, so two shirts with that design. I picked the Snoopy design for her third shirt. I told Mom that my only rule about embroidering or even sewing for someone is that they wear the finished item. Don't hang it in the closet and "save it for special". I expect her to wear out these two nativity shirts this Christmas season and we will made new ones for next year.
We did not forget Dad either.
Several months ago, while visiting my parents, I ran across this corn print fabric in Mom's stash. My rusty creative wheel turned when I saw the piece, so I told Mom to make her a shirt out of it and bring it when she came to see me. She looked at me like I was crazy, but trusted the rusty wheel. She had only purchased enough of the material for a front apron so had to do some creative piecing to get a shirt from the corn piece. While my parents were here visiting, we embroidered the Snoopy on the shirt. My rusty wheel thinks it turned out pretty cute, if it says so itself. 
