jljack......that's a wonderful picture. May you both have many happy quilting days ahead of you.
My Mom died in November of '96 at the age of 81......she hand embroidered and hand quilted a queen size quilt all summer long finishing it a month or so before she passed away. I don't know how she did it with arthritis and polymyalgia.......at night her hands hurt her so bad she wanted to cut them off. I'd tell her "Mom, you need those hands to finish that quilt".....then she'd start all over the next day determined to get the quilt finished. I'll post a pic as soon as I learn how to do it. As a child, I used to crawl into her big cardboard box of quilt pieces she kept in her closet, cover up with whatever quilt top she'd been working on and sleep.....she always knew where to look for me if I was missing for a while.