sam's tractor blanket is finally....

FINISHED! it was actually finished months ago, and here i am actually getting pictures. this was a labor of love, one that he already cherishes. i loved his very reaction of the almost finished product. he wanted to sleep with it before i sewed the binding on. as soon as i spread it on his bed he started jumping up and down saying "i love it! i love it!" and i LOVED that reaction.

around his birthday all he talked about was a big boy bed and having tractors in his room because "he only likes tractors." this is the design i came up with to start his tractor room. i chose the green because that's his favorite color, the blue because he already had so much in his room, the orange because that's the color he looks the best in (and i wanted to remember that), the black & yellow because it looks like a tractor. I LOVE IT!

the part i love the most was not the finished project or all the hours spent working on something i love, instead i loved all the time sam spent on my lap while i was pushing it through the sewing machine. he watched with quiet fascination on so many occasions during the process. i also loved the time together when will was sleeping. sam would sit on the countertop next to me with his batman and superman figures for hours pushing them in and out of my button and thread jars. i'm hoping that part of that fascination will stick; i hope he will always be inspired to create. I LOVED IT!




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