The Full Circle Quilt

Grace, Courage, and Comedy
How often are we so blessed to have someone with all three
of these qualities enrich and touch our lives??

The Full Circle Quilt
PREFACE:

When my mother died in 1981 at the very young age of 57, there were
many of her crafts and projects that were left unfinished. It was too
painful to deal with, so I carefully boxed everything up, and brought
them back home with me.

For years those boxes made move after move with me, and were never opened...it was too painful. Getting rid of them was not an option, but I really didn't know what to do with them, either.

Now......so many years later, I went through the boxes, and found many precious things, with wonderful sweet memories attached. As I looked,
I found the completed top portion of a quilt. It just needed the bottom,
and batting. My mother-in-law....an expert seamstress, took on the
challenge of cleaning the quilt top in its old and fragile condition,
and then completed the quilt.

We gave it to my Dad for Christmas....completed and back home where
it had begun as just a few pieces of cloth so many years before. The love Mom and Dad shared was solid, real, and everlasting. And I know he
will never love another. I wrote this poem, and placed it inside the
Christmas Package, on top of the quilt. He read it. Then looked at the
quilt, and started to identify different pieces of fabric, after all these
years. He then read the poem again. The emotion and the tears in his
eyes told me that we had given him a precious gift, that money
could not afford.

The Full Circle Quilt

This quilt has come full circle, with loving
hands it began;

Boxed up and carried across the miles, unfinished
and yellowed by time.

A cherished treasure, it was kept; with mementos
of the love,

It had no purpose nor could be used, the
hands stilled long ago.

But this circle is sweet, it comes around in
the most unusual ways;

An addition to our family, with stitches sure
and true,

Has completed this quilt with loving hands
as a Christmas gift to you.

So, once again this quilt is home, finished
and like new,

To wrap you in it's circle of the love
she had for you.

A Mothers Love

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