A couple weeks ago I attended the baby shower that I mentioned in a previous post. While I was visiting my Aunt asked me to take a look at a blanket that she had received from her Mom many years ago that was developing holes.
I was able to take the blanket home and repair it with materials that I had on-hand. It is a lovely blanket, essentially seven strips stitched together to form a rectangle.
It turns out my Grandmother knit this blanket for her Mother-in-Law while she lived with them in the few years preceding her passing. After a few years around the house that the blanket was passed on to my Aunt. Our estimate is that the blanket could be more than 50 years old.
I wasn't able to color-match the patches exactly. At first this bothered me as there are also a few stains on the blanket that I couldn't get out and now there are color irregularities all over. But I decided that my Grandmother would likely have preferred it this way - mend it with what you have on hand, no need to purchase anything new. So that is where it ended up. The new colors now add to the emerging character of the blanket.
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