For some reason (perhaps I was reading about it somewhere or dreamt it or it just popped into my head - can't really recall..) I remembered Dean's Rag Books from when I was little. I think I might have had one or two of these wonderful fabric books - often the first type of book little bubs ever encounter - and soooo precious as an introduction to a lifetime of loving books!
I'm not sure if any of my own survived (I have a lot of my childhood toys but I think books like these may have disintegrated through being loved so much or were passed on to younger siblings). This one was a recent eBay buy and travelled to Australia from Great Britain (how I wish it were that easy sometimes for people to pop into envelopes and travel all snuggly across the world instead of in snug (read not so comfy) economy seating on long-haul flights! ). Anyway, this little book arrived and it's lovely but I have to confess that I am thinking of chopping it up!! Eep! Sounds so drastic but I was thinking it would make lovely quilt blocks and as it is kind of old - it might enjoy living out its remaining days in a different form? Each page is so lovely it would be nice to showcase each in a quilt....but chopping up a book - and a baby book at that?? What to do...
Perhaps I read too much into the preciousness of things (yup - got in a pun...) and I'm all for recycling fabrics... hmmm....





