Great story and the quilt is beautiful. I started making baby blankets as my siblings started their families. I had been sewing for many years so not hard to figure a simple pattern with SID. A few years later my grandma helped me cut squares and taught me how to do a full size quilt and I tied that one. Now man y jyears later I still do not much follow a pattern but I have learned to take an idea and go with it. I also learned to do FM on my machine so I am an old dog learning new tricks.