It was all worth it. Previously I talked about a quilt my mom and I worked on for my aunt, her sister. My mom had bought the kit and was working on it, when she got really sick with COPD. She bought the kit, I cut out every last slanted diamond piece, because she was too ill to stand up and cut out pieces. She got about 12 out of 42 blocks finished before she couldn’t do any more.
After she died, and after I went through all her sewing stuff (gawd help my kid if I die too soon for she will be stuck with my sewing stuff) and fixed on finishing this quilt for my aunt. On a UFO night which we have periodically, we all sewed on my project and finished the center of it in one evening; all 42 blocks! It took me another 2 months to get the borders on, have it quilted, get the binding on, delay the thing enough to actually display it in a quilt show, and take yet another 2 weeks to get the label on: I got it in the mail last week, as a surprise to my sweet aunt.
t took 2 days to get there, but I didn’t hear from her until yesterday when I received a thank you note. She couldn’t call me because she would cry too much to talk. She’d always wanted a quilt because she likes old-timey stuff, and just wanted one. She’d seen Mom working on this one, and had always wanted one I’d made, so it was a double whammy.
May 21, 2008 at 17:53
where’s a picture of it?