Every May our local elementary school, Countryside Elementary, has a silent auction fundraiser. Every April I think, “hmmmm, what can I do with t-shirts this year?” After the recent “extreme-snow” winter I’m ready for picnic weather! (For any Countryside alumni parents, the fundraiser is tonight, it should be a fun party!)
The top is pieced from donated school t-shirts and flannel pajama pants and measures approximately 60″ square.
To provide some protection from the still damp spring ground, I backed the quilt/blanket with medium weight nylon packcloth. To keep the picnic from drifting away in the spring breeze, I added triangular pockets in each back corner to hold a small rock or other weighty object. So that it doesn’t end up in a messy pile in the trunk, I added a side tie to make it easy to roll and secure.
Hmmmm, I may have to make another one like this for me! I’ll keep it in the car as a light windbreak or bleacher cover for those cool spring baseball games or for a quick picnic between those summer doubleheaders (by the way, if you are ever in Ware, MA between a couple of sad ball games, it can all be redeemed at Pig Park BBQ … really). And I’ll need a place to sit on the beach while I wait for the Marc Anthony’s pizza delivery … and breakfast picnics at the deCordova Sculpture Park … and ….
Oh yeah, and it machine washes nicely in cool water.
