Thank you for sharing both your grief and your observations. We had a man come into one of our guild meetings with a quilt his wife made and started hand quilting. She died suddenly. He was going to toss it into the trash when a friend of his wife intervened and brought him and it to our guild meeting. It's a beautiful quilt and several of the guild members are completing the hand quilting.
So ladies and gentlemen, we really need to plan for the inheritance of our beloved fabrics. tools, and quilts. Otherwise, only God knows what will happen to them.