My aunt has made good use of the quilt these 40 years, and it shows. So she asked me some time ago to see if I could fix it for her.
This past week I got a start on it by sewing and pinning a piece of white cloth over the worn area and I plan to handquilt that on when it gets cool enough here to have a quilt draped over my lap.
It's kind of special to be able to participate in this quilt because I remember sitting with my newly widowed granny in the evenings watching TV together after my summer job of pumping gas at a service station along the Ohio Turnpike. She'd handquilt this in a large hoop as I admired her work. I lived with her that summer since my missionary parents were still in the Philippines. I miss her.
I'm also working on another leaders/enders scrap quilt top to hopefully sell. We'll see how it goes.
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