http://www.blisstree.com/articles/restoring-family-quilts-memories/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:31:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blisstree.com/articles/restoring-family-quilts-memories/comment-page-1/#comment-311126 shelley Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:00:05 +0000 http://www.blisstree.com/?p=92948#comment-311126 my mom in law and i are making a yo-yo quilt for my husband and i. we are sharing many special moments but what is so special to me about it is that it's coming from her hands in a time when her mind is leaving us. she has alzhiemers dementia and is fading fast. but working on this quilt keeps her hands busy and seems to help a lot. she forgets that i've threaded 6 needles for her and have them in her cupcake pin cushion, but that's ok, i just tell her gently again and again and so we go on. it's a wonderful expierence for me and for her son during her time of transition from this world to the next. my mom in law and i are making a yo-yo quilt for my husband and i. we are sharing many special moments but what is so special to me about it is that it’s coming from her hands in a time when her mind is leaving us. she has alzhiemers dementia and is fading fast. but working on this quilt keeps her hands busy and seems to help a lot. she forgets that i’ve threaded 6 needles for her and have them in her cupcake pin cushion, but that’s ok, i just tell her gently again and again and so we go on. it’s a wonderful expierence for me and for her son during her time of transition from this world to the next.

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