The Ingenuity of 1970s Sherpa

So it is true? Can I now refer to things from my childhood as "Vintage" and make them sound a whole lot more appealing than they otherwise might be?

If so, then I have inherited a Vintage delight this week.

While visiting my mum she passed onto me this cot sized saffron yellow sherpa blanket (aka: 100% Cashmilon, ie: acrylic fleece) that used to adorn my cot as a child. I also recall snuggling under it on my home sick days during my Primary years. After which it disappeared from general use, only to remerge now as a Vintage item of great value - sentimentally speaking, at least.

As mum gave it to me, she said that she was confident with my ingenuity I would be able to come up with a way to work it into something new, while preserving its form for posterity's sake.

So I thought that it would make lovely quilt batting for a small quilt - which would, in the process, hide its yellowness - which is more fluro than the photo shows. But as much as the colour is not quite one I'd choose in this day and age, it is part of what marks it so clearly in my memory. So the yellow must stay.

As must the sherpaness. We named our childhood dog Sherpa after finding a resemblance between his puppy fur and the texture of this very blanket.

So maybe it could be topped with some other vintage fabrics, remaining as it is for the batting and backing in one. Or maybe it could be edged with something in the centre, or maybe cut into blocks to work into a vintage quilt.

The options are endless, and I am open to any of your ideas!