little girls, little blue dresses

I was looking through my childhood photo album to compare one of my baby photos to Hannah now (I think she is getting my fluffy frizzy hair), and I came across this photo of Mariska and I wearing Oma's little blue dresses.

card weaving

When I was 9 Oma and Opa came out to Australia to visit for the summer. Oma was always knitting, sewing or creating something on their holidays. This time she brought her deck of weaving cards and an assortment of colourful cotton. She was experimenting with different patterns and colours, and wove this band for me. It is something I have always treasured.

Card weaving is an ancient form of weaving which creates belts or bands using a simple loom of squares of cardboard. You can even make your own loom using a deck of playing cards. I'm going to give it a go one day.

the little blue dresses

These gorgeous little Dutch girl dresses have been stored in Mums attic for the past 20 years. They were sewn by Oma for my sister and I when we were little girls. Recently with the birth of Mum’s first granddaughter, our little Hannah, she cleaned out her attic and passed on bags and bags of children’s clothes she has been keeping all these years for her future grandchildren. The moment I saw them again so many childhood memories came back to me. Memories of our Oma and all the beautiful things she knitted, sewed, and created for us as children. They, and she is the inspiration for creating this blog.