a brand new heirloom

Babystepping my way back to blogging,
I give you the post that I didn't write on Christmas day,
about a very special Christmas gift that Nene (4) got.

I wrote a post before about the Norwegian bunad 
tradition and one about the little bunad that is  our family heirloom. Nene won't be wearing that bunad (but her cousin uses it), because her grandmother made her an heirloom of her own: A tiny bunad from our region (Rogaland), handmade by grandmother, an exact replica of the adult bunad from our region. Grandmother did both the embroidery and the tailoring. She has a bunad herself that her (late) mother made for her. She took the bonnet from that bunad and turned into the purse that Nene
wears in her belt, so her great grandmother had a hand in this too.

The shirt isn't really supposed to be worn nonchalantly 
open like Nene does, but she was sick two minutes before these pictures were taken, and I  thought she would be more comfortable (less likely to puke) this way.

The Rogaland bunad features a shawl and a bonnet too,
that grandma didn't make because she didn't think Nene 
would want to wear them. But the bonnet was the first
thing she asked for when she received the bunad, so I
guess it's back to the embroidery floss for grandma!