Historien om et tæppe / The story of a blanket

Da jeg var 6 år fik jeg at vide jeg skulle være storesøster. Jeg kan ikke huske så meget - mest, at jeg absolut ikke ville have en lillebror og at min mor tog mig med ud at se drengebabyer for at vise mig at de også kunne være søde.....

Men én ting husker jeg endnu mere end det! Min mor hæklede det smukkeste babytæppe i hvid, orange og brun. Det passede perfekt til den grønne barnevogn! (Det var i 1976....) Det var ikke ofte hun hæklede, og som sagt syntes jeg det var så smukt! Her er det med babyen - som heldigvis var en pige. (Ellers kunne de have ladet babyen blive på hospitalet.)

Da min mor døde for en del år siden, fandt vi en kasse i kælderen med nogle babyting hun havde gemt. Der lå tæppet! Da jeg genså det opdagede jeg at det var hæklet i acrylgarn!!!!! Mand, hvor blev jeg skuffet!

When I was 6 years old, I was told that I would become a big sister. I don't remember much - mostly that I definitely did not want a baby brother, and that my mom took me to see boy babies to show me that they could be cute too.....

But there is one thing I remember even better! My mom made the most beautiful crochet baby blanket in white, orange and brown. It fit the green pram perfectly! (It was 1976....) She did not crochet often, and I thought it was the prettiest thing I'd seen! Here it is with the baby - who was fortunately a girl. (Otherwise they could have left the baby at the hospital.)

When my mom died some years back, we found a box in the basement with some baby stuff that she saved. And there was the blanket! When I saw it again I found out it was made with acrylics!!!!!! Boy, was I disappointed!