What a great thing so many quilts have been preserved for study and our enjoyment and our sentiment. Many lovely quilts have been lost to us. An heirloom can be a simple quilt made by hands from a past era. It can be a quilt that preserves memories. It can be a complex quilt with artistic beauty. But it is only an heirloom if it has been appreciated and passed down through the generations. Maybe some of my quilts will be heirlooms, maybe not. My hope is that my quilts will be enjoyed by others in some way. But no matter what happens to them, I know how much enjoyment I have received in making each one of them.