WELSH WOOL TAPESTRY BLANKETS

My homage to Wales today is about my new passion for vintage 
Welsh Tapestry Blankets. 

Just look at these blankets (photos credit and further observed here). 

I love the weave patterns and the vibrant colors (different on each side). 

We only have one vintage Welsh blanket, given to us by Allister's dear, 
dear, gran:

And we hope to collect more as the years go by, with plans to 
gift them to our daughters when they are older and excited 
to decorate their abodes with something fantastically Welsh!

TULIP BABIES & FAIRY MUMS

Our daughter was given a special little DVD from a friend for her last 

birthday called The Little Travelers. On the “extras” part of the “BRITAIN” 

disc, the two little traveling sisters, who are Waldorf schoolers, put on a 
sweet puppet show with silks and felted wool dolls. Our punky Rowan asked 
me last week if she could create a play toy from that “Tulip Babies” puppet 
show. Like a bubbling little fountain, she spouted all her exciting ideas of 
how we could achieve this, and we started cutting and rolling little tulip 
flowers out of recycled felted wool sweaters for the flowerbeds, making 
tulip babies, and pillows, teddies, and blankets for the wee babes’ beds… 

...  oh and a bunch of doting & flitting fairy mothers. 

See how cozy they are in their homes above a stream of 

happy goldfish? This toy was a treat to make and to give my 

daughter… a project using recycled felted wool sweaters, 

fabric remnants, wooden balls, pipe cleaners, yarn, etc.