Blankets

This is probably a premature entry on my website, and honestly, at this point, my website overall ‘feels’ more like a doodle or a blog or a combination of the two. I’m ok with that… for now. Right now I am busy with the school year, teaching, the home, cooking, cleaning… all the stuff.

I have been working on a project now and then that I’ve been dreaming up in my head for a while and a sort of ‘as-I-go’ creative evolution. This is sort of a 50+ years ago ‘replacement’ of sorts. I had a blanket as a child that was very precious to me. It was, um, ‘lost’… I was told.

It was very traumatic for me as a child… the disappearance (‘disappearance is really a more accurate word here than ‘lost’) of this beloved blanket & even as an adult there are times when I have thought about the comfort that thing brought me, longing for that same comfort.

As a long-past therapy of sorts, I thought I would recreate an ‘adult’ version of it. I see the one I’m working on now as being a sort of ‘prayer blanket’. I’ve done a little bit of research on this, and it seems fitting. There are a number of types of uses/creation methods for these… and the intention of use. I think I would also like to print/iron/sew a number of Bible verses between the front & back layers (that I have yet to attach together).

My childhood blanket was pink and white checked with a ruffle. My adult version has some pinks… has a checked pattern (on one side)… and has ruffles.

Nights when it is harder to fall asleep, I do various project imagining / creating in my mind. “How can I create this?”, “What materials that I already have can work together for this project?”, “How can I make this unique and special?”… and not that I actually think this next question (but I laugh, because this is also true for many of my creative endeavors)… “How can I over-do it”.

This blanket project is still in progress, but I believe I would enjoy offering children’s blankets at some point. I would not endeavor another this elaborate, I don’t expect. I would enjoy a less complex project, for sure. Wait! Who am I kidding?! I LOVE ‘complex’! But for time and the whole ‘time is money’ thing, less complex would be great.

I’ll share photos of it here when I’m finished. My goal is Christmas time… as it is a gift from me… to me. For the little child in me (who was so broken-hearted to ‘lose’ it) and the adult who still reminisces about the comfort it brought. I hope it also holds up well enough over time to be something precious and loved enough to be passed down to possible future grandchildren, great grandchildren.