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New Beginnings Blanket
New Beginnings Blanket In partnership with Eighth Generation:
"Life is not linear but chapters of various adventures," shares Tessa Sayers, the Turtle Mountain Chippewa artist behind our New Beginnings Wool Blanket. Turning the pages of Tessa's own adventure, one would find many stories, including artist, poet, farm girl, business owner, holistic mind-body somatic practitioner, and now Eighth Generation blanket designer.
New Beginnings maps a life's journey: the design forms around a central pattern representing the self, with radiating fragmented circles that symbolize the various pathways we take in our lives. Tessa shares, "New Beginnings features the full spectrum of life seasons. My journey took me down paths of loss, infertility, anxiety, and autoimmune disease. It has also led me to experiences of love, connection, creativity, and purpose."
Her design expands beyond floral motifs to include geometric shapes and symbols representing the Plains lifestyle of her Chippewa, Cree, and Métis ancestors across the plains of North Dakota, Montana, and Manitoba. With a winter-blue color palette that feels both timeless and trendy, our New Beginnings Wool Blanket is a calming, meditative addition to your bed or couch. This blanket is a beautiful gift to a loved one at the start of a new chapter, or as a celebration of your own self and journey. "New Beginnings is a matrix and maze of life seasons, gifts, and lessons, painting a complex, raw, yet beautiful picture of our lives," says Tessa.
