(I often encourage quilters to write their quilting memories, in a journal, in a scrapbook, in a blog, in a quilt log.  Although I’ve written quilting memories, I’ve never set them down in any detail. If I start a journal here, I can share them with my readers, too.)

I was thrilled when I discovered my mother had saved the quilt that once covered my bed when I was a child and teenager.  I thought it was too worn to save and didn’t consider it worth taking with me when I married and left home.

However, when I had to clean the old farmhouse where I grew up (prior to selling it after Mother developed Alzheimer’s), I found my quilt.  Mother had folded it and placed it on a shelf in a closet.  There it had remained for many years.

I described this quilt, of 4-Patch design, in my Quilt Patch of the Week.

How pleased I am now that for some reason Mother saved it.

How about sharing your memories and preserving them for your quilting heritage?

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