Quilting Day

I didn't mean to start looking at pictures...  I spent my "free" time today quilting.  I promised Max and Mitch when they moved out of the toddler beds I would make them full size quilts.  I finally started to piece them today.  I am making disappearing nine patch for them.  I got all the nine patches together and was going to go cut them all in half when I glanced up to see the last gift I made and gave to my dad.  It was an insert for his casket lid.  We had discussed its design to be sure it met his specifications.  I gleaned the materials for construction from the clothes hanging in Dad's closet.  The verse on it is Proverbs 22:28 Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.

My dad died on Sunday night.  We were planning on pulling our camper over to stay in my folk's yard on Saturday.  I finished the insert on Friday evening and got the kids fed and in their pajamas while Matt finished up the 45 minute long slide show of my dad's life set to the music of Buddy Greene.  We were planning on making the 40 minute trip over to parents to give them the video and the insert before returning home to get the kids in bed.  Matt had some trouble with the download and we decided it was getting too late to make the trip since we were going over in the morning anyway.  Early Saturday morning Dad slipped into a coma.  He never saw the last thing I got to make him, but I know he would have been pleased with how it all came together.

I designed the insert to become the center panel in a quilt for my mom.  For now it sits on the shelf on my computer desk.  Mom gave me dad's ties and I am planning to incorporate them in the quilt.  I think I need more time to insure quality work.  I can't seem to sew straight when my eyes are leaking and making the fabric soggy...