Right now I am building memories - reading to my 10 year old daughter. I so love the time that we snuggle up to read. We are reading "harry potter - order of the phoenix" together. Painfully slowly according to my bookworm of a daughter! She is so eager to get on and read it by herself. But I haven't read it yet and I wanted to check that it wasn't too heavy. It's quite exhausting reading out loud a book of that size - so we rarely get beyond one chapter before I have to stop. Days pass before we read again and whilst she loves that we are reading together I think she just wishes I would read more, and more often. I love her questioning and musing about what's happening. I love her "beside herself excitment" when Harry gets to kiss the girl! I would miss all of this if she read it to herself. So rather than being a labour of love, it's love that I get to share. I wouldn't miss this for the world. Hundreds of pages to build the memory.
Reading to the kids has always generated such happy memories. The nostalgia of this all came back to me when discovering Kellie Wulfsohn of Don't Look Now's new pattern "Memories".
Memories is a pattern with three wall hangings/cushion covers.
In one of them, pictured above, Kellie has very cleverly printed fabric based on favourite pages of children's books that she read to her own daughter and used this as the background for her "Memories" project. [the instructions on how to do this are in the pattern]. I think she did hers to remind her daughter of her class at school, so the leaf of the tree has the childrens names written on them - by each child - which is just so sweet to remind your own child of their primary school days. It would also make an ideal teachers gift (mind, they would have to be a really great teacher!) if each child in the class signed their leaf.
My mind leaps on from this to thinking how many memories there would be if you used much loved dress fabric from your daughters dress that no longer fits....
Here is the Joseland Tree which is also in the same pattern - add as many birds as there are in your own family tree. The tip here is to buy your frame first, and then make the wall hanging to size of the frame (much cheaper than custom framing!)
And here is the family tree, again use the number of birds to represent your own family or make as pictured below. This is also in the same "Memories" pattern. This time it is shown as a cushion but equally great as a wall hanging.
This pattern is availble now on my website.
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