Child’s play to turn art into memory with Scatterpillar

The figments of your child’s imagination can be brought wonderfully to life as soft toys and cushions this Christmas — by an enterprising mum who makes original keepsakes from upcycled clothes.

Dublin-based textile designer Jacinta Leigh was finding it difficult to send a bag of her twins’ clothes of particular sentimental value to the charity shop.

Also, there was only so much wall space for the art-mad twins’ drawings and she hated stashing them in the attic.