Pointeofview

When my sister was undergoing chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer in a city miles away from where I lived, I wanted to make something to show her that she would always be wrapped in our love as we were wrapped in her life....I decided to make a quilt to keep her warm during her 3 hour appointments at the treatment center. My first quilting attempt wasn't a total disaster, but there are obvious mistakes in it that I didn't notice until I had made a few more quilts. I gave it to Jane hoping that she would feel the threads that connected it and her to me whenever she used it. I am sad to say that my sister passed away about 6 months after I gave her that quilt. I jokingly say now that Jane left me a few things, a lot of memories, and an addiction....I am now hooked on quilting. In the last two years since making that first quilt, I have made four more quilts, giving them all away. I think sharing them is as important to me as making them. I do have a quilt planned that I will keep, but I have at least three designed in my head that I have to make....and give away...before I make the one for us.

My daughter wanted to learn to quilt, so we chose an easy pattern to make, each one of us working on our own project at the same time so we could help each other with any problems that we encountered. While I chose autumn colored and themed fabrics for my quilt so it would blend with my mother's living room colors, Rachael chose rich jewel-toned fabrics for hers. Although they are the same pattern, they are two distinctly different finished pieces!