Making a blanket for Jessica

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So in the past I have made a lot of blankets.  Blankets for babies, blankets for the kids and even blankets for strangers as part of a drive to support kids in hospital.

Jessica has never had a blanket!

It has been only recently that she alerted me to this fact.  I think it is because she always had her favourite blanket that was a Pumpkin Patch one given to her at birth.  She refused to sleep with anything else, so there was never a need for her to have another blankie.  Anyhoo, she was starting to feel a bit left out of the mother love, and kept mentioning that she wanted a blanet.  So I gathered up all my odds and ends that were in some sort of colour scheme and went ahead to make 48 little squares to stitch together.  I wasn’t sure how it would turn out, but last night I finished the border, tucked in the straggly ends and attached some crochet flowers that I made….. and Voila….I think it is just beautiful.

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She was asleep by the time it was a all completed so I placed it over her in bed and in the morning she woke up to it.  She loved it.  Very much worth the effort to make jsut to see how much she appreciated it.  She looked gorgeous all wrapped up in it.

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This is my beautiful Jess last week on her 9th Birthday.  Isn’t she stunning.  She is a gorgeous kid, happy and smily and just so willing to do what is right.  She is a joy.  Happy birthday Honey xxx