About 5 years ago, I pieced my daughter's graduation gift at work. It took a little longer than I had planned working during lunch breaks, but it finally got done and she loved it (picture). Now my son will graduate in May and I've started working on his quilt...I know...it probably won't be ready either!
Oh my goodness! I just searched my blog to see when I had started this quilt and it was in 2008!!! At the time, my mother had cut out all the pieces for her, my grandmother, and me to all quilt the same pattern. They both finished theirs right on up....not so much me!
But now, it has an even more special meaning to Adam since he knows that his grandmother cut all these pieces. She knew I was working on this for him and I got lots of
I'm doing it all by hand, tempted as I am to put it on the machine! I use some of those makeup bags that you get when you buy perfume to carry my project to work in. The night before I pin my little blocks together. I use another little makeup holder (with the mirror) to hold all my pins, them, and cutter. I don't carry scissors with me, but a thread cutter that slips on my finger for quick, easy use.
The thread is the same spool I used to piece Sally's quilt with. It is actually a spool of thread that my father's mother brought home from the shirt factory she worked at once. I know...the thread is old, but it's still in good shape and adds just a little bit more heritage to the quilt.
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