What a wonderful thread. I've read them all and cried over lots of them.
My story is about Cindy in Wyoming who started a Grandmother's Flower Garden in 2001. She wrote the date on some of the freezer paper inserts as she sewed them into the hexies. Then she got Lupus and was unable to finish it. Cindy gave it to her sister-in-law in Wisconsin, who tried working on it, but the sister-in-law said, "There are not enough years left in my life to do this."
She have it to me in 2012 and I took it to our quilt club. Cindy had about 10 of the flowers finished and one had the garden path on it. About 10 ladies of our club worked on it for about a year. Then we raffled it off at our quilt show in 2014. It was won by a deserving neighbor very well known by the sister-in-law and me. She has the quilt on her bed.
The proceeds from the raffle were donated to all the food pantries in the county where most of our members live.