A Quilt for a Friend

In the fall of 2005 a good friend of mine, from

way back in Jr High, lost her husband.

She did not live close by and I wanted to do

something to brighten her world.....and this is it.

I started out with the middle block. I traced

and colored with crayons and ironed it in between

a brown paper bag to set the color.

I had an older lady (88 yrs old) that had done a little quilting

for me before, do the quilting on this and

she went right over the top of my applique!!

Oh well, it turned out OK. No biggy and

last summer the older quilting lady passed

and I am glad I have some of her work she

did on that ancient old machine she used.

I guess you could say it is just a huge wonky

log cabin quilt. It was a fun quilt to make and pretty fast

for me as I had only been doing this for a

little over 2 years.

Last summer my friend had gone to spend some time with

her daughter and family in Arkansas and they

had a house fire that destroyed most all they owned.

When I got the call about the fire the first thing her

daughter told me after saying they were all OK was

that her mother had not brought the quilt with her!!

I was relieved to hear that but more relieved to know

they all got out of the house OK that night.