The Quilt
Dear Brother Mark,
I wanted to make you something special for your new sweet baby, Claire.
I created a quilt for her, even experimenting with pastels and pinks that I don't usually use. I thought about how you'd admire the origami fabric, and the pink and green cars and I even used my last piece of prized Planet fabric in the corner.
I know you've gone all girly with her, but I also know you'll want to raise her to be strong like all the females you've been surrounded by. I know you'll buy her some hot wheels for her 3rd birthday. Maybe she'll eat the tires off of all of them like you did to your older brother's cars.
I really wanted it to be nice. I wanted it to be nice enough that, despite the pinks not being exactly the *right* pinks, you'd still love it and want to use it.
Many people have enjoyed the baby quilts I've given them. I have one on route to England for Livejournal friend right now that's blue and green and "northern Ontario" themed. Simon's wee Ivy was snuggled into her orange and pink quilt at your wedding last summer. My friend Bonnie in Ottawa is on her 3rd child with her quilt, and says it has held up well through loads of machine washes. My brother-in-laws wife from China loved her all red quilt so much that she still carries it everywhere with her 14 month old old girl.
But, neverthless, of course things can never go right exactly when you most want them too.
See, the new dog, Kevin... she's a good dog. She steals recycling and hides it in her crate, but she's not much a chewer. Except, it seems, when I leave the quilts too close to her crate.
Seems she caught the edge of Claire's quilt, and had a bit of a gnaw on it.
There was just no way to make the edge straight again unless I took the quilt apart and replaced the square. But i don't have any of that fabric left, and it would take a while, so my other choice was to try to repair it somehow.
I did what I could, including doing some embroidery over top of the holes from Kevin's teeth.
The finished product is less than perfect. I mean it was going to be anyway, cos that's my style, but this is worse. There's no way I can even give this quilt to anyone else now either.
Now I'm debating whether or not to still send it. I mean, it's now a chewed and badly repaired quiilt - hardly first time baby gift material. I could send a different one, I have a nice bright orange one on the go, and a subdued beige and blue one, and purple one, and a pretty fall colours one.
But somehow I think those will all gets nixed, neatly packed into a box and stored. Not that this one won't, but this one was meant to go to Claire. So maybe i should send it, defects and all. A sad gift from her defective Aunt.
I don't know.
I wanted to make you something special for your new sweet baby, Claire.
I created a quilt for her, even experimenting with pastels and pinks that I don't usually use. I thought about how you'd admire the origami fabric, and the pink and green cars and I even used my last piece of prized Planet fabric in the corner.
I know you've gone all girly with her, but I also know you'll want to raise her to be strong like all the females you've been surrounded by. I know you'll buy her some hot wheels for her 3rd birthday. Maybe she'll eat the tires off of all of them like you did to your older brother's cars.
I really wanted it to be nice. I wanted it to be nice enough that, despite the pinks not being exactly the *right* pinks, you'd still love it and want to use it.
Many people have enjoyed the baby quilts I've given them. I have one on route to England for Livejournal friend right now that's blue and green and "northern Ontario" themed. Simon's wee Ivy was snuggled into her orange and pink quilt at your wedding last summer. My friend Bonnie in Ottawa is on her 3rd child with her quilt, and says it has held up well through loads of machine washes. My brother-in-laws wife from China loved her all red quilt so much that she still carries it everywhere with her 14 month old old girl.
But, neverthless, of course things can never go right exactly when you most want them too.
See, the new dog, Kevin... she's a good dog. She steals recycling and hides it in her crate, but she's not much a chewer. Except, it seems, when I leave the quilts too close to her crate.
Seems she caught the edge of Claire's quilt, and had a bit of a gnaw on it.
There was just no way to make the edge straight again unless I took the quilt apart and replaced the square. But i don't have any of that fabric left, and it would take a while, so my other choice was to try to repair it somehow.
I did what I could, including doing some embroidery over top of the holes from Kevin's teeth.
The finished product is less than perfect. I mean it was going to be anyway, cos that's my style, but this is worse. There's no way I can even give this quilt to anyone else now either.
Now I'm debating whether or not to still send it. I mean, it's now a chewed and badly repaired quiilt - hardly first time baby gift material. I could send a different one, I have a nice bright orange one on the go, and a subdued beige and blue one, and purple one, and a pretty fall colours one.
But somehow I think those will all gets nixed, neatly packed into a box and stored. Not that this one won't, but this one was meant to go to Claire. So maybe i should send it, defects and all. A sad gift from her defective Aunt.
I don't know.