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This is a very special quilt, made for a very special girl. One year when I was teaching first grade, Alma (one of my students) was with her father out in front of the school when her father had a massive heart attack and died instantly. He was not even thirty years old.
Quilters in the Guardian Angles Swap contributed the squares in this quilt, and I put it together for Alma. I told her that there were a lot of people who really cared about her and her family, and what had happened to her father. My husband Tom is on the right. The woman on the left is Myrna Pletcher, who taught in the room next to mine. Below is a picture of Alma and her cousin Johnny, who was also in my class.
Alma is the little girl in the white T-shirt. Her cousin
Johnny is sitting on her right. I took the squares to class as they arrived,
and we would lay them out on the floor. Alma herself decided how the squares
were to be arranged.
I think the smile on Alma's face says a lot about how healing a quilt can be in a time of grief.
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