thank you for your post. you are right, she did love it. we had a lot of competition with each other as teen-agers but right before she died, we became close. i'm glad my daughter retrieved the quilt. i remember finishing the quilt as i traveled from my home in north carolina to ky and i finished it as soon as we drove to my hometown. it was her Christmas prewent. i'm sorry, y'all, for making this subject into a sad one