When a quilter passes away

Randy and I drove to Nj to pick up the things left to me by a dear friend. Sharon lost her battle to cancer and wanted me to have her quilting things. It was so hard to sort her things and pick what I wanted. After many tears and hugs, it took her husband and I over 3 hours to finish packing things up and loading them into the truck.

So, here is what years of collecting fabric, planning projects and dieing before you had a chance to finish them looks like.

What your looking at are 41 quilt kits that she put together. If you look really close you can see where she put a photo copy of the project and all the fabric needed to make the top into large bags.

This is a pile of fabrics, my guess would be that they were intended as quilt backs. There is no cut there less then 9 yards.

This is a tub of 1930 reproduction

And this was the Sun Bonnet Sue that was on top. There are 20 blocks total, all needle turn appliqued and a few embroidered.

This is 5 years subscription of Austrlian Patchwork and Quilting magazine.

Here we have her Y2K charms that she left in the envlopes and never put together. I am going to put them into a quilt and give it to her husband as a gift. There was so much more the it was imposable to take photos of it all. I has taken me 2 days to put it all away, and my husband had to put more shelves in my cabnet. There are 3 more rubber maid tubs and 2 boxes that I havent even opened yet.