The Pram

Jan's pram is truly delightful. The size, the shape, the colour, the wheels, the handle, the hood, the rust, the cobwebs ....everything.
I have only ever seen one photo of myself as a baby and that was of me sat in a Silvercross pram, (obviously it was a lot bigger than Jan's). I will try and get the photo off my Mum and put it up on here. My Mum always tell us the story of when I was a baby and she put me in nice clean clothes in my pram in the garden, only to come out later and find that Sean (my brother) had shoveled soil onto me! I was buried alive beneath the dirty filthy earth. Poor me. I don't know what happened next but I imagine he got a good hiding!

My Grandmother's Summer Garden

A while ago, (October 2010 in fact), I wrote a little about patchwork blocks. One design in particular which I was drawn to is titled Grandmother's Garden. It consists of repeated hexagons surrounding each other to create a kind of flower design, this then tessellates with other repeated blocks of the same design.
It's funny as when I was at secondary school, I'm sure we did a sample of patchwork for a cushion cover in this method. I probably hated it at the time, but now, well I do quite like it!

Next...

So, recently I was lucky enough to find a beautiful vintage Silvercross doll's pram on Freecycle! I knew it would be perfect for something, although at the time, not quite knowing what was in store for it. So off I went to collect it from 'Jan' in Bicester.
Jan was wonderful and she was determined that the pram should go to a good home. She was very excited to discover what I was going to be doing with it. After staying chatting with Jan for over an hour and almost coming home with a Flymo lawnmower too, I drove home with the beauty squashed into the back of my dainty Ford Fiesta.


The pram


It was driving along the A34 that I suddenly had a brainwave and thought I could use my patchwork ideas as a part of this new 'pram piece'. From this moment on the ideas have been flowing and rattling around in my head, so much so that after what... ermmm 9 months of no blogging I have decided to empty out my cobwebbed mind and splatter it all over the internet for all and sundry to see...
So welcome back to my labyrinth of alchemy, madness and daily routines!

Emma