My daughter and I made this quilt together a few years ago (sorry about the terrible photo). It was just a fun thing to do together. She pieced the blocks with some help and I machine quilted it doing random free motion work in each piece. It is based on the Turning Twenty patterns though not exactly as I never had the pattern. I saw a picture and came up with my own measurements.   It doesn’t match her room at all. She really hasn’t used it. I was recently cleaning the linen closet and wondered what to do with it as it was just taking up space. 

Then my niece’s house burned down. She and her room mates lost everything but they are all okay. That is the most important thing!  She is a college student so everything to her is different than everything to a couple that has been married forty years but still. She is a good 600 miles from me. Then I thought of this quilt. It was perfect, unused, ready to go. I had it in the mail the next day along with all the school supplies I could fit in the box.

I was so glad it had been sitting in my closet. You just never know when these things will come in handy. I can’t imagine losing everything I own but it does remind me that the stuff that is most important in life, isn’t stuff.

Until next time…