Yes I do believe in ghosts! My DMIL made a quilt for her bed when she retired teaching third grade at age 67. She had it on her bed one time when the family was all there for a holiday. Everyone loved it and told her so. She was worried there would be a fight over it when she died so she started at the top of the list of kids to make each one a quilt of their own. She had 9 kids, 8 boys and 1 girl. My DH is the youngest. She made the oldest one his and then asked me to help with the project. I cut blocks and serged the edges for her. She did the candlwicking design on each block. She then sewed them together and stitched 3 inch wide ivory lace over the seams and had them hand quilted. I helped by stitching lace on one quilt and I handquilted her only daughter's quilt. I did something with her for all of them but hers and the fist one for the oldest son. She had to go into a nursing home the last few month of her life. We went to see her just before she made the move and she asked me about my quilting. I told her what I was working on. Then I asked her about hers. She started to cry and said that she would not be able to finish ours, the last one, before she died. I asked her if she would like me to finish it for her. She cried harder and said "Would you?" She sent my DH into the room to get the blocks she had finished and the pattern books for the candwicking and the thread for it. We took it home. She moved to the nursing home and she took a turn for the worse so we spent as much time with her as we could. The quilt had to wait.
About 6 months after we lost her, I placed the blocks on the floor and she had 27 of the 42 embroideried, but one block was missing. I put them away because it was still too soon to work on it. As were were going through her house, we found the lace she had intended to use for our quilt and in her sewing basket was the last partially finished, missing block. I sewed them together and included the partially finished block. I decided not to embroidery the empty blocks but I did hand quilt in a design in each one instead. That way the embroidery was hers alone. On the partially finished block, I quilted a wreath around the embroidery she had done and quilted in the date I finished it for her. She embroideried the date she started on the first block and the date she finished on the last block of each quilt but she was not able to do that for ours.
Getting back to the ghosts, the day I put the quilt on the frame and threaded my heedle and took the first stitches, I felt her in the room with me looking over my shoulder....watching me quilt. I felt her several times, just popping in to see the progress. It took me 14 months to hand quilt the quilt. It was king size and I worked full time so quilting time was a precious thing but I did finally finish it in time for my DH's birthday. I laid it on the floor and I could feel her there again. I had a warm feeling that now she could rest in peace, each of her "children" had a quilt. I named the quilt "A Promise Kept" for 2 reasons, one that she kept her promice to make a quilt for each of her kids and two, because I promised to finish it for her. It is a beautiful quilt, all ivory fabric, embroidery and lace. My DH tells everyone about it and has shown his brothers when they visited.
I think she was there with me to finish this project. She was a wonderful woman and I loved her dearly.