Random Acts of Craftiness

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Mim at Greenjewls surprised me by offering to make me a baby quilt. Now you must understand that we don't know each other. We read each others blogs, but haven't even had any back and forth emails. She first offered to send some of her son's cute baby clothes, but found them to be too small for my big guy. So, in about a day she sewed up and mailed out this wonderful quilt made of fulled, recycled wool sweaters.

It truly fits into our family's lifestyle. I love it. It's handsome, durable; light weight, but warm; and not too precious, which is important with an active-explorer pre-schooler (jumping, spilling), a baby (spitting up), and a dog (lots of hair). It also reuses materials — good for the world, good for the soul. I love the colors and patterns, they remind me of the hills and furrows of a Grant Wood painting.

Mim also filled the shipping box with other treats for big brother (Thomas train, wooden frog toys), and mom (fabric, embroidery floss), including a limmerick about my baby-poop-colored Martha-Stewart-painted bedroom. Here it is:

There once was a paint chip called yolk*
It looked lovely to almost all folk
for those who make moo
it looked like baby poo
Perhaps it is all just a cosmic joke!

*An Actual Martha Stewart Signature paint color.

Thank you Mim!
Your kindness is inspirational.