Thanksgiving comes a week early for me this year!
A week before I finished a baby quilt for my newest neighbor last July, I finished the quilt top and backing for my mother-in-law from the same fabric. The Home on the Range fabric I initially bought to teach my mother-in-law to quilt. The quilt that has been a thorn in my side since 2022.
I finished (and presented) the baby quilt in no time (but still late for the by-then two-month-old), and then life (and Parkinson's) stress took off again. The sandwiched but unquilted mother-in-law quilt resumed its stressful heart pricking because I hung it on the top of my quilt rack (custom built by Lizard's stepdad not long after we bought our house) to remind myself every day that I needed to finish it. Preferably before my mother-in-law's November birthday to cure my self-inflicted stress and hopefully enable myself to move on to other more enjoyable projects.
Her birthday was Tuesday.
I finished quilting the quilt last Saturday. That's right. In one day. Simple straight-line quilting I had hoped Lizard might be able to do at least a portion of. (He hoped, too. It just didn't happen. We're still hoping he can one day tackle the longarm again... Tremors might actually help his free-motion quilting.)
At 10:38 p.m. Tuesday night, on my mother-in-law's birthday, I finished the binding. Hallelujah!!!
Lizard's mom will be here Tuesday, and Lizard will present her late birthday present in person. She has no idea it's coming. She might be disappointed Lizard wasn't able to do any of the sewing or quilting. But a stack of the Home on the Range fabric remains... Maybe I can piece a pillow, and Lizard can help me stuff it...
Why on earth would I ever put that kind of pressure on myself again??? Oh, yeah, to get rid of the leftovers... :)
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