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I have a quilt that my parents gave me when I married
twenty years ago. It is special to me for several reasons.
First of all, it was pieced by my great-grandmother
who I never met. She only had one arm because she fell into an open fire
when she was a young wife and mother. The arm was severely burned. I assume
it was amputated because the burns were so severe. Nevertheless, she raised
a family of seven children and did all the work that a mother on a farm
had to do.
Secondly, the quilt was quilted by two ladies who were
friends of my parents. They finished the quilt on the day of President
Reagan's attempted assassination in 1981. They hand wrote a note about
that and sewed it into the back of the quilt. The pattern of the quilt
is a variation on the nine patch. The fabrics are obviously what my great-grandmother
had on the farm, but it is one of my treasures because of the stories
associated with it.
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