My sisters and I made a quilt for my grandmother for her 85th birthday. I finished it and hand quilted it. I put a lot of time into it. It was an autograph quilt and we had people who were at her party sign it. Two years later she died. After the funeral we went back to her house. My mother went up and got it and gave it to me. She wanted to make sure that I had it back. It hung in my family room for a few years.
Thanks for the memory of this. The anniversary of her birth and death (She died a half an hour before her 87th birthday) is this weekend. I still miss her.