WE made a quilt for my parents and every family crossed stitched blocks to represent their family and we added other crossed stitched blocks to represent them. The quilt is about 40 years old and is doing fine. My parents have passed but we still have the memories and the quilt. I w given the blocks and asked to put them in a quilt. We gathered at my sister's house for the weekend and somehow I came up with a plan and put the quilt together. My sister was so impressed with the result that she registered it with the quilt historical society here in Illinois. I did bind the cross stitch blocks before adding them to the quilt. It worked well.