SOL26:No 10 Slices of SeaTurtles

 

I'm sharing with my Slice of Life Community today. 

I could write about electrical, heat, hot water, or washer issues after my basement "repair" that is still happening or about car repairs or about the challenges of interstate driving during the rain, but instead I am going to write about quilts!  last week, in the midst of destruction and craziness, I made one more for a new one who will hold a piece of my heart even if I never hold him!

I made my first quit in the fall of 1974 in the midst of being a newbie teacher for a friend's first baby at a time when money was scarce and frankly I had no idea what a baby needed! I have only a vague memory of using fabric I already had and doing all of the quilting by hand. Since then, I have made many,many quilts for relatives, friends, neighbors and babies I never met! Strangely, I have very few pictures because frankly I am usually finishing them on the fly! 

This one, I delivered to an expected Great-great-nephew which makes me sound really-really old! Even if I am really, really old, I know we do not cover babies with quilts anymore in cribs or even in the car. In fact, babies do not need quilts or blankets these days at all, as they are wrapped in ergonomic sleep sacks and crash proof car cozies that cost far more than any quilt! Yet, this lowly quilt may someday cover the floor during an emergency tummy time when the fancy play center is not available or it many just serve as a roof for a play fort! 

Babies do not need 

Quilts, even if they are

Stitched by hand,

But,  they do (STILL) need to be

Wrapped in love, and

Slices of sea turtles if

Their parents love the beach.