Oreo wrote to me sometime last week:
Dear Dr Chan,
It’s me-ngiao. Could Little Nut and I trouble you for a nice patchwork blanket for Great Grandma? She’s recently moved into Grandma’s house after Grand aunt (Grandma’s little sister) went to the rainbow bridge-ngiao last week. Great Grandma’s favourite colour is purple but blue would do as well. And if possible, can it be covered in flowers-ngiao? Great Grandma has been so sad and we want to cheer her up a bit. She doesn’t have a blanket at the moment and she doesn’t like a weighty blanket. I heard her telling Mama that she uses a towel when she feels cold-ngiao. That won’t work and I thought of our blankets and you.Little Nut and I would pay for the blanket-ngiao, with extra in memory of Grand aunt. Please let us know if it is possible. Thank you.
Of course we can make a purply floral blankie for Oreo’s Great Grandma! So I went straight away to the biggest and only textile shop in Subang Jaya, hoping to find purple floral material. Unfortunately, would you believe it – they didn’t have any! Hmmph! But I bought plain coloured purple cloth and another blue floral cloth. Luckily too, my mum had made 20 pieces of 9-patch motifs from her recently acquired batch of cloth, which, coincidentally was very floral! I sent photos of these to Oreo and Hazel thought it was all so “pretty-mew”.
So we were all set….
These are the 9-patch motifs.
Heidi agrees that we should turn them into more interesting motifs.
Here we go…
Cut, re-arrange and voila!
Helping…
What’s with the leg, Daffodil?
She ain’t heavy, she’s my daughter…
In the making…
For anything floral, of course the consultants would be Rosie and Daffodil!
Here we are!!
A field of flowers for Great Grandma, as Oreo puts it!
I’ve sent the blanket to my mum’s for the backing to be sewn in. The backing cloth is contributed by Agnes Cheong.
Pretty, pretty flowers!
From Oreo:
Hi Dr Chan-ngiao,
Little Nut says “Pretty!!! The flowers look so happy and bright! Great Grandma’s bed is going to look like a field of flowers! Thank you-mew Dr Chan!” And I must admit-ngiao, the blanket is so pretty. Daffodil and Rosie and you have a talent for making scraps of random flowers into a field of flowers-ngiao. Thank you all! And thank you in advance to Dr Chan’s mama.
And we thank Oreo, Hazel and their Mama for their very kind and generous donation of RM1000 for this blanket! Many animals are going to benefit from this. Thank you so much! Tomorrow is also AnimalCare’s 7th anniversary, so this donation means a lot to us!
This donation by Oreo’s Mama, is made in loving memory of Oreo’s late Grand Aunt, Ms Vivien Michelle Lim Swee Tee. May she be in a peaceful and blissful place.
Comments
6 responses to ““A field of flowers”, blankie for Great Grandma”
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! Many showers of blessings to all.
So beautiful. I really really love the little flowers. So sweet…
Love it! Such a pretty colour combination..
It’s sooo pretty, such a lovely and cheerful blanket for Oreo’s great grandma.
Daffodil and Rosie’s photos are so adorable too 🙂
A nice one! Daffodil with her sexy leg.
Thank you Dr Chan-ngiao! Thank you Daffodil, Rosie and Dr Chan’s Mama too!