Originally Posted by maryb119

I am hand quilting a quilt that my MIL started. She made one for her bed when she retired. It is all ivory muslin and each block has a candlewicked design on it. She used large block and stitched them together and added 2 inch wide ivory lace over the seams between each block. Then she had it hand quited. Everyone loved it and kept asking "where's mine?" She was worried there would be a fight over it after she died, so she started right away embroidering blocks to make each of her 8 children a quilt. She finished the second one by herself and then asked me to help. I cut blocks and serged the edges. I hand quilted one. I stitched lace on another. Quilting gave me the chance to know what a wonderful person she was. Anyway, one of the last conversations I had with her was about the last quilt........my husband's...he is the youngest. She started to cry and said she was afraid she would not get it finished before she died. I asked her if she would like me to finish it for her. She really cried then and said yes. She was glad all her kids would get one. She had 27 out of 42 blocks embroideried. I put them together with the unfinished one and I am hand quilting it like the others were done. In the plain blocks, I am quilting in a design. It is in unbleached muslin, with ivory candlewicking and ivory lace. I am working on the 19th block so I am almost halfway done. I am hoping to have it done by our 25 anniversary in June. She has been gone 2 years now and I miss her very much. I have already given the quilt a name......A Promice Kept.....she for making one for each of her kids and me, for finishing it for her as i promised.