Originally Posted by sewlisa
Originally Posted by TanyaL
Who has the quilt? How worried will your mother be is you start working on it? IF she will be very worried is it worth it? Was this a very special quilt to your grandmother or just the latest one that she happened to be making? I think your priorities lie with your living mother not your dead grandmother. Think about it.
Mom has the quilt, and I don't know where she has stored it. I think for now I will respect her wishes and plan to finish it someday.
Bingo! If to finish the quilt would cause your mother unnecessary distress, then leave it alone until it can no longer cause her distress.
Imagine this. You take the quilt top, and as you complete it something bad happens....maybe not fatal, but something bad. You KNOW what your mother is going to say, and not only that, she's going to feel guilty for "allowing it to happen".
You can't fight superstition.