Can you imagine any baby actually wearing it? Surely it was for a Christening day, or just a present, never to be worn?? Our boys' bibs were, of necessity, a whole lot larger and a whole lot plainer!
Somebody has enbroidered the word 'pet' on it, which I never really liked, personally. I know it's a human term of endearment too, but for me, this is what a pet looks like:
And here is an adorable cloth button. I love the little details...
Here is something new from something old - Penny's cardigan, which I showed you last week. If you remember, it was all brown, with brown buttons and no colour. This looked great with Penny's sparkly silver hair, but does nothing for my paler colouring, so I changed the buttons for vintage Mother of Pearl ones...
Here is me, wondering how on earth to get a good photo of the cardi when the mirror is screwed to the wall opposite the window...
You've had the old and the new, and here is something borrowed: I read Kari Meng's lovely blog The Warp and the Weft today and I think that, if you don't follow it anyway, you should read today's post. Once again, she's been given access to an old treasure-house with 'tons of old stock - ribbon, notions and millinery...' She has few photos on the post, but her descriptions of how she made the fascinating contacts which led to today's news are well worth reading.
And here is something blue! You'll note from my blog that I rather like blue, but I now have a problem. The upstairs bathroom is blue and the kitchen is blue. The spare bedroom is blue-ish. The living area's spring colours have often been green/blue/yellow, but this year they are more predominantly blue. Bit by bit, I am removing the orange and rainbow colours which have kept us warm this winter, and am replacing them with blue. And, before I get to the end of the orange, I have run out of blue!
... a blue Cedar in our garden...
... some fantastic fabric I bought in Veti'relais last week...
... Great great... great Uncle Joshua's bow tie...
... a little boy in the kitchen who reminds me of our own boys...
... so I had to buy two of them...
... a recent find from the troc shop - a lovely cake tin....
... an older purchace - ikat weaving I found in a charity shop in the 1980s - still one of my favourites...
... dwarf irises on our window ledge...
... metalic blue glinting inside a Fair Trade lantern... (it's just an old metalic balloon for a bit of colour!)...
... a weird but wonderful wind chime in the kitchen...
... my personal failing - a Fair Trade blue patchwork bag which fell apart, but I can't throw it away...
... so I recently made one myself...
... and I knocked up this cushion over the summer, too...
...but THESE are something special - my grandma bought a quilt from the 1860s, we think, at a Devon jumble sale. When it fell apart my mother gave it to me to see what I could salvage. Here are two cushions from the remaining good parts...
... a detail of fabric about 150 years old...
... and another, all stitched by hand... who made it? I wonder, as I do my own inferior stitching on it...
... a modern French salt cellar in the kitchen...
... and I still love blue more than any colour, so I'm once again at work on a blue project:.. 
...old skirts and jeans, mainly, most of them treasured until they fell apart...
I can never have enough blue!
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