Yes, I’m sentimental

Isaac just sent me this picture of Lux cuddling a bear that my  mother knitted. My mother died four years ago, and we all miss her terribly.

When Lux first came over from San Francisco as a baby, I loved wrapping her in a soft blanket that my Gran had crocheted, I loved the family link.

When I made the quilt for her cot, I used fabrics from clothes of mine, my daughter’s, some curtains from my mother’s house, and I backed it with some fabric from my Gran’s. I liked the idea of four generations of family being represented in the quilt that welcomed her into the world. She won’t know, but I know; and I think it was important to me because she lives so far away from us all - 5,000 miles. That’s sentimental.