Search:

If I would just keep my mouth shut, I could save myself a lot of work.

But no, I had to tell my parents about the quilt family members assembled for my neighbor’s 50th wedding anniversary. It had foot square blocks with an different embroidered picture for each family member. With my grandparents’ golden wedding anniversary looming on the horizon of time, I mentioned it as a gift idea to my parents.

A couple weeks later, my father asked, “how’s the quilt coming along?”

Before my next call to my folks, I went shopping for material.

Initially, my ...