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Old 03-06-2010, 09:00 AM
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gwin1943
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My quilts are made with a specific person in mind and then they go to that person. My s-i-l and I jointly make wedding quilts for the nieces and nephews. Having lost my husband to cancer and having survived cancer myself, I am on my guild's committee that makes quilts for each child undergoing cancer treatment locally. The chair calls and asks if I have time to make a quilt and gives me the child's first name, age, gender, favorite colors and major interest so that the quilt can be personalized to that child. There are enough people on the committee that we each make only one or two quilts a year for the 45 - 60 children having cancer treatment in our local med center annually. The quilts in my home are ones my grandmother -- for whom I am named and who taught me to quilt in 1970 -- made and some I made for my parents and have back, now that they are gone. Someday, I'm going to make a quilt for myself -- maybe a Christmas quilt.
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