What goes around comes around

 Most readers will know I have 4 delightful granddaughters, now aged between almost 4, and 7. I've been making clothes for them for the past 7 years, and some of the clothes have been handed down multiple times. (Although each child has had a lot of their own clothes, too.) The project list has reached 310 items, and still growing. However, the inevitable has happened: some of the clothes are now too small even for the youngest. The real baby clothes went some time ago. But all the toddler and age 2-3 clothes are now also being reluctantly acknowledged as too small, and hence not suitable for taking along when the family moves into their new home. There's no-one left to pass these on to!

So I'm going to indulge myself here by looking at some of these clothes in their heyday.

First, here is Ada in some of the things I made for her - sadly now outgrown. See if you can spot them in the heap above.

You can see how she loves to pose!

And now, here are her older sister and cousins in some of the clothes she later wore - also in the heap above!

 

Sad to see these little clothes go. Someone suggested to me I should save them for the great-grandchildren - but as the oldest is only 7, by the time any great grandchildren come along I'll probably be pushing up daisies! So they will have to be recycled or turned into a quilt.

STOP PRESS: I found a close friend's granddaughter of 2 and a half would be visiting at the same time as us. So I took the larger ones with me and they were very gratefully accepted. The rest are going soon to the refuge.

 

Here's some of the recycling, giving these clothes a new lease of life: