Originally Posted by weezie
Originally Posted by wishiwerequilting
weezie, your quilt top is beautiful. did you design it yourself?
Thanks, Lisa. It was in McCall's Quilting April 2002 issue. It's called "Embracing Sharon" done for Sharon ?? whose son had cancer.
I now have a friend in another state who is dying of cancer; when I first heard the diagnosis, I thought, "I'll sandwich and quilt my little applique lap quilt top and send it to her for when she gets out of the hospital and goes home." Initially, the guesstimate was that she had a year to live, but it's been only weeks since they found the cancer and her time left is now down to a matter of days or hours, I think; her powerful pain meds. have "taken her away" already. So, sadly, I never completed the quilt. I had forgotten until now that the original quilt was designed and made for a cancer victim.
So ... not a happy quilt.
I found myself in the same situation a couple years ago. I finally finished the quilt last August '09... after putting it away for 9 months... and gave it to my sister. It was her SIL who died after only 3 months. We both cried. Tears are okay. Feelings are neither right nor wrong, they just are.
My prayers for your loss.