Four yards of blue flannel dotted with white sheep have been
in my stash for so long that the original purpose for purchase is lost to
memory. Usually such a nice piece of cloth would have soon found its way into
one project or another. But not this yardage, as sweet as it was I could
not bear to cut it into strips.
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| Blue Birthday nightgown just before I popped it into the mail |
I have been working on another toothbrush rug, this time
coincidentally in flannels. The goal was twofold: one to use up flannel from my
stash, two to provide a warm non-latex non-skid rug for my daughter’s cold
stained concrete floor. Searching for flannel in red, white and blue was how I
stumbled upon the long forgotten blue sheep-dotted yardage.
Our little granddaughter is a Laura Ingalls Wilder and Beverly
Clearly type of girl. Her mother and father spend countless hours reading books aloud for her. She loves dressing up and hearing about yesteryear and
long-ago people. Long flannel nightgowns are her bedtime delight and her birthday
was fast approaching.
My collection of patterns includes those for the nightgowns I
sewed for her when our daughter was young. Every Christmas Eve new home-sewn
pajamas waited beneath the tree for each of our children. A lovely tradition,
my own grandmother did the same for my sisters and me when we were young.
Combining two projects made sense. First I would sew a
nightgown for our little girl and then I would use the scraps in toothbrush rug
already in progress.
Our little girl was thrilled to receive the nightgown and her
parents are thrilled at her new eagerness to don her nightclothes.
I will show the rug at my monthly Rug Group meeting. Then it
will go into the mail to our far-away little family. It is filled with scraps
of many memories that my daughter might recognize including scraps from a few
of her long-ago Christmas nightgowns, flannel shirts her father wore, and pajamas from other
family members. Do you think she will notice the little bits of blue
sheep-dotted flannel included in the rug? Do you suppose she will feel our love for her and her family with both sole and soul?
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What a lovely thoughtful Grandmother you are! I adore the night gown and would have loved to wear as a young girl. Laura Ingalls Wilder's books were my most cherished books when I was growing up. Glad to hear that another generation is loving them too!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Thistle Rose! With grandchildren living far away, I do my best to dote on them from afar. I am grateful for FaceTime!
ReplyDeleteDid you hear there is a new book by/about Laura Ingalls Wilder? I believe it is actual excerpts from her diaries. Once I heard about it I placed it on hold at my local library and look forward to an interesting read. It may be awhile, though, because the wait list is a long one.
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