My mum has had this apron squirreled away that her nan (my great grandmother) made from old scraps and gave to her in the 1940’s/1950’s.

I thought it looked very familiar and now I know why. In the current Cath Kidston Christmas Gift Guide 2011 are the products made out of the following materials.

I am very proud of my great grandmother. I know she was just doing what everyone else was at that time, and that we have now entered a period of looking back at these traditional crafts during the recession. However, she clearly was a trendy little woman (and she was very little). I am proud and potentially inspired.

I love little family treasures like this that have been handed down through generations. It is just a shame that it is so delicate and the material is very fragile otherwise I would have been proud to use it. So unfortunately back in its box it will go. But I hope that my daughter or son will take the same pleasure from it and hopefully it wont have disintegrated by then.