Mary, that is an awesome story. Our county fair has a category called "Heritage project". You can enter any project that was started by one generation and finished by another. My mother passed away in 1999. She started a ripple afghan about a year before she died and had it about 2/3 done. I was finally able to pick it up last winter and finished it, without a pattern. I entered it and received a blue. The judge said that she was amazed that she couldn't tell where one person ended and the other one started. That was the best compliment I could have received. I gave it to my son who is now in college. He was shocked and he even remembered his Grandma working on it.
I am working on 8 quilts for graduation gifts. I have 2 of them completely done and I just finished the last top yesterday. Now I just have to get busy and get them quilted! My goal for 2010 is to learn to applique so I can finish a Lodge Look quilt that I started.