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My 80 year old mother has been working her fingers to the bone......

My 80 year old mother has been working her fingers to the bone......

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Old 02-13-2011, 08:20 PM
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Thank you for sharing such wonderful work. It is beautiful. I love the yellow silk one with the butterfly in the middle. I would make that one into a pin cushion. That way you could see it every day after she is gone, but that could be in ten or twenty years from now. My mother quilted till three days before she said good bye and she knew it was her last project. She was 90 years young. When she finished her cushion she told the nurse, "Here you are this is the last thing I am doing. I am going home to make tortillas for my husband. May your Mom be with you for a long long time.
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Old 02-13-2011, 08:22 PM
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Please try to finish for her to see? The blue fabric with bees, I have exactly the same in my stash in South Africa imported from America. Love and good wishes to her.
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Old 02-13-2011, 08:36 PM
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She is keeping incredibly busy ... I think those are a lot of work and I don't have the patience to work on them. Bless her heart and her talent.

If she keeps it up like she has been, you'll have enough for several beautiful quilts.

warm quilt hugs,sue in CA
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Old 02-13-2011, 08:46 PM
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What size are your hex's? They are beautiful. Mom does exquisite work.
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Old 02-13-2011, 08:50 PM
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Stunning. Stupendous job mom! How about appliqueing some of the ones she likes the most onto a good quality kona muslin so she has a quilt to use. She can also use muslin or let say an antigue green and start piecing the others together to finnish her own top. I love it!
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Old 02-13-2011, 08:58 PM
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So beautiful, she did a great job. lol now your turn :)
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Old 02-13-2011, 09:17 PM
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that is amazing, how wounderful, you two will make a beautiful quilt together. What a keepsake it will be.
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Old 02-13-2011, 09:35 PM
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Goodness! These are gorgeous! What treasures! Like a gold coin, every one. May God bless her.
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Old 02-13-2011, 09:36 PM
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that is great....keeping busy keeps you young!!!!
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Old 02-13-2011, 09:38 PM
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I especially LOVE the ones with the bee's! What a great job, maybe get a a gift certificate to get a hand message, or better yet you do it, that would be nice! I used to rub my Mothers hands, and lotion her feet, paint her nails! Boy I miss my MOM~
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