A Timely Gift

 

My local group, “Kaleidoscope Quilters” had a wonderful outdoor distance meeting on Saturday. The weather was perfect! We are a very charitable group and the bins of donation quilts fill up fast. I try to make at least one quilt a month for one organization or another. This month I had 2, one for Ronald McDonald House and one for the local infusion center. As I was popping them into my bag, I had second thoughts.

 Our quilting angel, Sharon, is always there to take whatever hot mess of a top I give her to whip into submission with her fabulous quilting. She is cheerful to a fault and you would never know that she has a chronic illness which brings her to the infusion center every week.

 The quilt I had slated for the infusion center was one that Randy (Barrister’s Block) and Barb (Fun with Barb) and I had done as a round robin a while ago. After my other quilting angel, “Kathy” did her longarm magic, I didn’t think I could part with it. I picked it up and realized it really needed to go to the special person who makes all these donations possible. So, although it seemed a bit like “taking coals to Newcastle”, I boxed it up with a ribbon and placed it in Sharon’s lap at the meeting. 

 After the meeting, Sharon came over to me a little weepy with her phone in hand. She said, I don’t know how you knew it, but this has been an extra rough week. Her son had just had open heart surgery at the Lahey Clinic in Boston. She showed me a photo of her son walking in the hospital after the miraculous surgery. As quilters, we just never know how we can touch someone’s heart at the right time.

 And, this is the little quilt that went to the Ronald McDonald House. Last May when I put out the request for orphan blocks for the “Community Supper” quilt, many of your sent more than one. The center of this is a crazy block that Claire (Cspoon Quilts) sent at that time. I finally used it Claire!  

I adore this little duck fabric. Wish I had bought the whole bolt. You know what they say, “hind sight is 20/20 yards”! I think we are all just glad that 2020 is hind sight!

 Happy Quilting!