Finishing Things

I finally got another UFO quilted, bound and finished. This is called Reverse Star and is done in all civil war reproduction fabrics. Some of the stars were from an online swap.

And my second block for the CQI group project to benefit breast cancer. My promise was two blocks and so my obligation is now complete after I get them mailed off to Leslie who will put them all together.

Memories and Making Memories

Some of the ladies of the CQI Yahoo Group are making blocks from old wedding gowns for a Making Memories quilt to be sold to raise funds to grant a final wish to a terminal breast cancer patient. I promised to make 2 blocks. This is my first. Since mom died of breast cancer I feel obligated to help others. I thought of mom as I stitched. She was a drunk  and an absent mother but I loved her anyway. I didn't realize how much until I sat by her side while she was in hospice. I learned how not to be from my mom. That must have been her purpose in life.