Now Wearing Purple

My lovely dad passed away unexpectedly in April, and just prior to this happening, he and my stepmum handed me a bag of old candy stripe sheets and Witney blankets. When I said they would come in handy as dust sheets, they both look aghast. I did a quick back  track and said I would love to have them as bed linen. They were then stuffed in a cupboard and forgotten for a bit. I remembered having sheets like this as a kid, and asked my stepmum recently where the sheets and blankets came from. To my utter surpise, she said from my old family home. These were the sheets I had slept on as a nipper.  Well, out of the cupboard they came yesterday and into the washing machine for a freshen up!     The multi-coloured ones are a bit faded and I think I will use them to line two of my couffin baskets. The brown aren't bad, but not my colour, so maybe cotton covers for dog beds.  The blue stripe are almost new and will be used in our carav...