SOL 2 Pieces of Love

A long time ago, when I had very little money and a little more time, I made my first baby quilt.  It was not a huge stretch for someone who had been sewing since she was 14 and who had made her own wedding dress (don't get too excited...it sure was not like the dresses of today)!
That first quilt was a gift I could afford for the first of my peers to have a child. Yet that first project of pieced remnants and turned into something more than I could have imagined.  I spend a lot of time sewing and quilting and I imagined that it might soon wrap a "miracle" on a cold night.  It's most important job, however, was likely its role as that little girl's "lovey."   About a year later, I made an elaborate Blue Bonnet Sue quilt for my sister's first daughter.  My financial situation was a little better and I also threw in a car seat as a baby gift; but I realized there was something special in that quilt that represented the many hopes and prayers I had for that child and her family.  Over many years, I have made many not-quite-so-elaborate quilts for other babies of friends and family.  I have incorporated themes and family hobbies such as fishing and jogging!  I've made quilts with thin "slices" and fat "pieces" of fabric.  I've used remnants and fine Egyptian cotton in the same quilt!  Once, I used tie-died batik fabric for a child who was named after a Grateful Dead song! 
When my daughter (who has many intersecting identifies herself as well as a challenging professional career) called on Sunday night to tell me about her weekend quilting obsession, I smiled because I knew. I too had spent the day making a quilt and I could have just plucked something off the registry.  I am pretty sure I did not tell her - but somehow she figured out that pieces of love are better than anything money could buy.