Finished just in time to make its way back to Missouri and into my sister’s hands. I stitched the label while I was there, of course. It was good to be home. Good to see my sister. Give her a hug in person.

I haven’t talked about her cancer before. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in March (at the young age of 35 for goodness sakes), underwent surgery and is 4 sessions away from completing her 6 months of chemotherapy. We joke that my sister Liz made phone calls to every cancer resource West of the Mississippi. I quilted. We each do things that help us cope with events that are just too enormous to make any sense of. We love you Jenny.

The hands on the quilt belong to my sister Anna, my sister Liz and her two sons, Caitlin, Leil and me. None of us live in Missouri, this puts us close in spirit.

I’m speechless in describing the quilting done by my extremely talented friend Marybeth O’Halloran of White Lotus Quilting. Every glorious stitch is full of love and warmth and beauty.

More pictures of the quilt on Flickr.

I think I’ll leave it at that.