KarenR

Ok as I'm appreciating reading about your sister and wishing there were more like here around, I got thinking. Why not make here a quilt for her bedroom- one without all the mistakes. Just Kidding. You would have two that are loved if you did.

Raine

Really touching story...i do have sisters like that! We are blessed.

Taughtby Grandma

Proves the old saying, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

mhollifiel

KarenR! My sister does have a quilt that I made especially for her. It's in her colors with lots of gardening prints. I gave it to her for her birthday 8 or 9 years ago. She takes care of it like the crown jewels. She drapes it across her chest of drawers for display in her guest room. In retrospect and knowing that, I should have realized that she'd never put this old beach quilt thing to it's proper use but I was just so excited for her to have something useful for the sand at the beach. Or maybe I was just too happy to have a "decent burial" place for that awful quilt!

I am so glad that I shared this story. Both my sisters are wonderful but this little sister of mine has really taken care of me in my "old age" even from a distance. I could never have survived the grief of my first DH if she hadn't constantly called and "made" me come "help out" her or my nieces and nephews instead of falling into a huge pit of loneliness and sorrow. And she's as good to her friends as she is to her family. She's the very definition of a loving sister and her husband is as wonderful as she is. Her name is Alice which means 'Noble kind; of the noble sort' and she lives up to her name every day she lives.

pegquilter8

Holli,
I LOVE your sister! What a treasure.

shirleyd

What a special story! I bet the quilt top is beautiful and who looks at the back? And you have a very special sister.

purplefiend

Your sister is a treasure! One of my favorite quilts is only ever shown with the backing up, nobody ever sees the baskets that are on the front. (sighing with gusto).
Sharon

quiltlady37

This story warms my heart. I have been lucky to have my quilts warmly received but I know not everyone does. I can't imagine the pain when they are not received lovingly. Your sister and her husband are keepers.

lmwinfree

What a beautiful story and sister, too! Remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The one holding your quilt thought it was beautiful. That is really all that matters to her.

jcrow

I love you and your sister. My sister passed at 53 years old after a VERY brief illness. She taught me to quilt. I was the recipient of her quilting room supplies. She loved to make blocks but didn't care too awful much to put the blocks together. I found lots of blocks of stars satin stitched to muslin with one strip of plaid on one side. I found stacks of plaids and the pattern. I added plaids to all the sides and put the blocks together and made a queen size bed quilt. After I had it LAed, I called my younger brother and asked him if he would like a one of a kind quilt -a quilt made from his two sisters. I thought it would move him to tears. He's a bachelor and sleeps in his living room with my lap quilt as his blanket. Well, surprisingly he said his house wasn't a quilt house and he already had a quilt and didn't need another one. I explained how this was one of a kind and he said 'yeah, yeah, no thanks, Jeanne'.

So I called my daughter and hardly finished the story when she burst into tears and begged for the quilt. She has probably 20 of my quilts and always asks me if I have any new quilts she can have. So I sent her the quilt and she called me and said it's her favorite! She loved her Aunt Carol Ann. So, I had a happy ending also. Still wish my brother would have realized how important that quilt was. But my daughter did. Maybe it's a female thing.