I'm wondering if giving a gift can be selfish? Actually, yes, I suppose it can in a 'here's a book that you ought to read' kind of a way. And I thought for a minute it might be in this instance, but then I promptly recanted. You see, I so enjoyed creating this little guy below that I thought surely it couldnt bring more joy to the person I was giving it to than it did to me making it. But it seems I might have been wrong. Seems my joy in making it led to her joy in receiving it and then her two daughters joy in using it. Goodness breeds goodness - and that just feels good.
Here's the story, albeit brief and seemingly inconsequential: I love great tablecloths. The slightly faded florals (gasp, I know, April likes the florals...) the geometric pattern trim - the fact that you just know somebody has served up a heaping portion of mashed potatoes or fresh baked cobbler and ice cream while one of them was spread out over the dinner table surrounded by hungry kids and moms and dads. Unknowingly, I've amassed quite a collection of them from my own family over the years.
However, as much as I seem to love them, I don't actually seem to love to use them as they were intended. Actually, most often I prefer to see them all folded up nicely ironed and in a stack rather than spread out over a table. Open the closet and ah, they just look so nice in there folded and ready for something (self-diagnosed OCD NOS step aside). Preferring a more clean look when I set a table, I've taken to giving some of these tablecloths a new life....
I was admiring one the other day when I noticed the linen had been washed so many times that a hole had emerged. A tablecloth no more....a reason to sew!
So I took this.....
However, as much as I seem to love them, I don't actually seem to love to use them as they were intended. Actually, most often I prefer to see them all folded up nicely ironed and in a stack rather than spread out over a table. Open the closet and ah, they just look so nice in there folded and ready for something (self-diagnosed OCD NOS step aside). Preferring a more clean look when I set a table, I've taken to giving some of these tablecloths a new life....
I was admiring one the other day when I noticed the linen had been washed so many times that a hole had emerged. A tablecloth no more....a reason to sew!
So I took this.....
and created this....
It made the perfect birthday gift for a mother of two little girls. Might end up holding hair ties, headbands, socks, tights, washcloths....you name it. But whaterver they end up keeing in there will sure look sweet.
Now I just need to make another one to hold spare plastic bags for my little guys at school....
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