Rescuing Homemade
Homemade blankets cover us in love long after our loved ones have passed. Rescuing homemade blankets from thrift stores is my favorite cozy thing to do. It does not matter if the item is knit or crocheted; each piece made with love and deserves to be snuggled by someone new. A caring person spent their time and love to make this homemade blanket, perhaps for a friend or family member and it deserves a good home. It may have been passed down for generations or recently made; you never knows when you rescue these blankets, but for whatever reason the person who received it, no longer wanted or needed it. I swoop in and save it. I bring the cozy to my own loved ones. This homemade blanket deserves a good home and a person to cherish it.
Homemade blankets are made to cover people in love and warmth. Re-gifting a homemade blanket is like spreading the cozy with someone we love. It is offering our loved ones the warmth that someone was kind enough to assemble stitch by stitch. It may not have been made for them, but the coziness that surrounds them while curled up in the blanket is still there. The warmness, the feel of the yarn on their skin, the weight of love over their legs. Cold nights made better by being covered in this cozy. The warmth of one person’s kindness now makes a thoughtful gif for another person. The cozy and love is felt while you snuggle underneath the blanket. You marvel at the stitches, you think of the hands gliding over needles or hooks as one loop, then another made the blanket, and you yourself start to think about how homemade gifts you made loved ones have touched their lives.
Re-gifting thrifted blankets is always a treat. Washing them, making sure they are clean and snuggly, and then wrapping them in pretty tissue paper and tying the bundle up with what else, but yarn. Handing your present to a loved one, you feel proud of the homemade gift, you rescued a loved treasure to pass on the treasure of cozy to another. I always drawn to the stories I imagine being shared while the blankets are made or when it was gifted to a son or daughter. Did the loved one receiving it truly understand it was love given to them? It was coziness that was offered, but did they take it to thrift store the next day? I hope they cared for it and used it, but you never know. Once I give it to a loved one, I no longer know where it goes. Those moments of when I rescued the cozy and passed on the homemade loved to my own loved ones; well that moment is truly magical.
