Originally Posted by grann of 6

All this talk about quilt police and plastic covers reminds me of a funny thing that happened a couple years ago. This is going to be rather lengthy, but bear with me. I used to crochet doilies for gifts; learned from an aunt when I was a child. Anyhow, I always wanted to make a crocheted tablecloth, to everyone else's hilarity. Yah, Mom finishing a tablecloth, right! Well, I started making motifs years ago and worked away on them while my husband was having chemo, and during doctor visits. I wrote the beginning date on the pattern. After he passed away I couldn't work on it for about 2 years. Then I finally decided I would finish it for the next Thanksgiving dinner at my daughter's home. Now I didn't tell anyone this; they just saw me working on it and laughing silently. So anyhow I finally finished it the weekend before Thanksgiving that year and one day without saying a word, went to my daughter's house and put it on the table; wondering how long it would take her to find it. The next morning I get a phone call from her saying, " I am at Joann's in the vinyl tablecloth aisle, how much plastic and what weight should I get to cover that lace tablecloth you put on my dining room table?" I was rather abashed that she was going to cover it with plastic, but she said, "Well, I'll never get it washed and blocked and back on the table so humor me." So every year we sit there with plastic over it and enjoy it. By the way, it took me 9 1/2 years to complete it. And I told my 2 DDIL's not to expect duplicates.