Visiting our 2 1/2 year old granddaughter Anya is such a delight. She is such a cheerful and thoughtful little girl. She giggles as we get into the car at the Boston airport. I sit in the back seat with her on the ride back to their home in Melrose.
Anya is a real chatter – box now now that she has learned to talk and articulate her heart’s desires.
She shows me her three barbie dolls, one of which has a big fat braid of blond hair down her back and of course is called Rapunzel.
I planned for a few months to come and visit over the 4th of July. John, my son, mentioned that Anya really liked to play with her dolls: put them down for a nap, then gather them up and group them on a chair and sing the good morning to you.
Every morning I sew something for about 1/2 hour to an hour. The past few months it has been dolly blankets, pillows and dresses.
I make lots of quilts and have a few left over squares and strips of scraps from various projects. I decided to use up some of those with a folk art print of a-b-c…. I cut out a strip of 8 inch muslin and sewed strips of scraps onto the muslin. Then cut that into an 8 inch square and then in half to make some triangles.
I sewed these triangle around the edge of the folk art print and added some borders. It was so cute I made two for dolly napping blankets. When those were finished I still had more pieces of that folks art printed fabrics left. One thing lead to another and pretty soon I had made a whole quilt with rusty orange sheet for backing. My friend said it was autumnal with the rich yellows and oranges.
All because if my sweet granddaughter, Anya.