Thank you for your emails about the earthquake here in NZ over the weekend. Luckily for us, we were unaffected in our city- but poor Christchurch is in a mess. One very good thing was that the earthquake happened at 4.30am, so the central city was pretty quiet and no lives were lost. Thanks for your support and concern!
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My youngest sister got engaged recently, and she and her partner had a family party yesterday to celebrate. After traipsing around the shops in town for a morning, I couldn't settle on what to buy them for a gift, so I made this beach blanket for them instead. They don't have a house yet, but they do have a car, and I figured this could live happily in the back seat for impromptu picnics. The design is from this wonderful book, by Amanda Soule. I used vintage bed-sheets and other cottons for the top, and a thick cotton chenille bedspread for the back. It folds up with cotton twill-tape ties to keep it altogether when not in use.
It's inspired me to make one for us, too, and I even bought a funny old candlewick bedspread for the back. It's lemon-yellow in colour… excellent. I'm getting excited about summer trips to the beach already.
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