Yester Year WIP

It Happened in 1968 

• North Vietnam and Viet Cong troops launch the Tet offensive
• Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
• President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968
• Earthquake in Sicily
• Redwood National Park is created in California to protect the Giant Redwoods
• Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy marry
• The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is dedicated
• Boeing 747 made its maiden flight.
• NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission
•  Allen K Breed invents an air bag that deploys and inflates automatically on violent impact using nitrogen gas.
• Apollo 8 orbits the Moon, becoming the first manned space mission to achieve the feat.
• Dr. Christian Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant.
• US Explodes experimental hydrogen Bomb.
• The Emergency 911 Telephone service is started in the USA which provides a single number for reporting emergencies and is manned 24 hrs per day 365 days per year
• ATM First Philadelphia Bank installs the first automated teller machine in the U.S. 
• The first Big Mac goes on sale in McDonalds costing 49 cents
• The Beatles create Apple Records and record "Hey Jude" as the first single on the label
• The CBS television news magazine program "60 Minutes" shown for the first time
• Cleveland Fabric Shop changes its name to Fabri-Centers of America, Inc. and changes shop names to JoAnn Fabrics
  
• Beverly starts her Gingham Rick-Rack Log Cabin Quilt



All the strips are cut for me- its almost like getting a jelly roll



Fast forward to 2012 as

           Bobbie attempts to complete Bevy's Gingham Rick-Rack Quilt!

I actually haven't started stitching anything yet, but plan to do some this weekend! I really love the gingham fabric with the faux rick-rack and will probably add some real rick rack to the finished quilt/quilts! Thank you Christine for the challenge!

Have a Great Weekend!

                               TTFN! Bobbie (who is still trying to make a cute signature line)

PS. the date may not be exact- I think Bevy said she started this when she was 16 or so.

Also I was trying to find the cost of fabric in the 60's but didnt come acrross anything, so if anyone has a link please let me know. All my info came from: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1968.html