At my mother's 80th birthday party in April, a woman in her nineties was admiring the quilts hanging around my house. When she indicated she used to quilt in the old days, I asked her if she had any stray blocks around she'd like to get rid of. Then I didn't think anything of it. A month later my mother hands me a Woodward and Lothrop box with quilt blocks in them. All the the blocks were hand-pieced. A note included said that she'd made a mistake by combining cotton and polyester fabrics in the same blocks. If I could make a charity quilt out of any of the blocks, I was welcome to them.
I added some sashing, quilted them so that the hand stitches would never come out and ...voila! Two Linus quilts have been donated to my guilds charities. The guild is sending her a thank you note along with the picture above. It makes my heart feel good!
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