OMGoodness Barb...words just can't say. I know what you've put into this quilt and it was so wonderful watching it's progress.
The poem is gorgeous. There's the big annual US convention in TX too...I didn't realize there was an international one.
Your quilt is going to raise wonderful funds. You have put words and beauty in something so well that it has become powerful. You are so talented, with your words and stitches.
I bet my mother would have loved that quilt. Roses were her favorites.