Marie Watt Studio

We were given our blanket for Christmas—we didn’t like the design much. The fabric was also funny—not quite blankety enough. But too course to be a beach towel. We used it for picnics because we didn’t mind getting it trashed; sometimes we used it to move furniture around the house—laying it between the dresser and the floor to slide the dresser across the room. We asked our grown daughter about it, and she remembered that it had been used as a mat for under the Christmas tree. She was astonished at one point to find out it had a reverse side, exactly opposite in colors - the sun’s face on the gold side was “snarky” so she preferred the blue side. Apparently she used to play on it (at Christmastime) using the little wooden animals from the “Native American nativity by a cactus set.” We had no idea this blanket had played such a role in her imagination! Our son has no associations with it at all. I asked our daughter if we could give the blanket away—what about her special memories?? She said it was okay … she didn’t need it to stay, she wasn’t going to miss it. She is a writer now and it’s lovely to think of her creating stories on this blanket, imagining adventures that those wooden animals were having. It’s great to think of it moving on—like her stories can go out there too …