THE Quilt!

During a visit with my Mamaw McCall she showed me how to piece a quilt. She got me started with the center square of four and then told me to take it home and finish it and she would quilt it for me....WELL, about 3 years later NOW, I still have not finished that quilt and so I decided I was going to finish up the color I was on and leave it the size of a throw and have her quilt it for me. I just can't imagine when I am ever going to have time to sit and piece this thing! I know she has made many quilts in her life and is faster than the speed of lightning compared to my, what seems like 5 minutes per square!! So, I did...I finished up the turquoise squares in the car about 5 miles before we arrived at Mamaw's for our latest visit to Tennessee! I worked so hard on that quilt and am very proud of the work I did! Deep in my heart I wish I thought I could finish it, but more important to me than finishing it myself is that she have a part in this quilt! So, I walked into Mamaw's house and after a few minutes of catching up I said, "Well, Mamaw, I brought you my quilt." She said, "You did! Did you finish it, let's see it!" so I showed it to her and she said, "Well, you're not finished...it looks good, but you aren't hardly finished!" I told her I just didn't think it was going to be possible until Katlyn goes to college for me to find time to work on it and that I hoped she wasn't disappointed, but I just wanted her to go ahead and quilt it! Now, of course I had thought through this because I knew she was going to tell me it wasn't finished! I said, "I did bring up the rest of the fabric if YOU want to work on it?!?!" and she just smiled and laughed and said, "I bet you did! I'll work on it, but I can't promise you when I'll finish it!". I told her I didn't care when I just wanted it to be a special quilt that I could say she and I worked on. I think it will be a beautiful quilt when she finishes it and something that we will cherish forever! Here is a picture of me working on the quilt and Katlyn supervising! I can't wait to see it when Mamaw finishes it!