When my son was born in 1978, I became deathly ill and was eventually diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis.\u00a0 No doctor would give me a straight answer as to whether I would live or die so I decided I better hurry and make a quilt for my son so he would have something to remind him of the love his dead mother felt for him.\u00a0 I began the quilt in early 1979. I was too weak to use scissors (or swallow or smile for that matter) but with the little money we had, Bob bought electric scissors, a super marked-down ugly dijon mustard-colored blanket (for batting) and a mint green sheet (backing).\u00a0 The electric scissors worked well through this one quilt before they bit the dust.\u00a0 I already had lots of scraps from garment sewing so I made cardboard templates and proceeded to make this quilt.<\/span><\/p>\n Thank goodness for this quilt!\u00a0 It helped serve as a distraction to my illness and added to my determination to live, at least until it was finished.<\/span><\/p>\n This altered Tumbling Blocks (block sides are different size from the tops) is entirely hand pieced and hand quilted with ‘5 spools for $1’ polyester thread (the only thread I could afford).\u00a0 The quilt has been much loved and washed many dozens of times.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n It has survived, as have I.<\/span><\/p>\n Tumbling Blocks – 1979<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the first quilt I ever completed… mostly because I thought I was going to die. When my son was born in 1978, I became deathly ill and was eventually diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis.\u00a0 No doctor would give me a straight answer as to whether I would live or die so I decided (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1020,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288\/revisions\/1602"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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