Evangeline was assigned a repurposing project for Earth Day at school. She was to create something useful using at least two items that would be otherwise thrown away or recycled. We thought of a few things, but nothing really seemed too exciting until we remembered that a few weeks prior we brought home some old linins from the farm. I had washed them and many of them were in great shape, while others had some yellowed spots or were not something we had a need for. We decided to use one of the old table clothes (embroidered by either Evangeline's great grandmother or one of her great-great aunts), some scrap fabric and scrap embroidery floss to make a lap blanket.
Not only was this project fun because of the items we were using, but it was also exciting because it's the first sewing project Evangeline made start to finish on her own. She even used the sewing machine completely by herself to put the blanket together.
Jed, of course, is always interested in whatever Evangeline is doing, much to her displeasure much of the time.....
At the end she tie tacked it, which is how my grandma finished a lot of her blankets. She was very excited to share it with her class.
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