My grandma made hundreds of handmade quilts during her 96-year lifetime. Every grandchild, great-grandchild, and great-great-grandchild received one for their baby shower and high school graduation, and any who got married also received one as a wedding gift. She also made them for extended family as wedding and baby gifts. My baby quilt is unique compared to those of my cousins. My parents were unable to conceive, but desperately wanted a child. They worked with different organizations to hopefully be placed with a baby as quickly as they could. When we were matched, everything happened very quickly. My mom's family hastily organized a baby shower, and my grandma wanted to have a quilt ready for me as soon as I came home with my new family. Therefore, she sewed the quilt top but did not hand-quilt it as she did with all of the other quilts she made. Instead, she sewed a blanket into the center, and tied the quilt at regular intervals with colored yarn. It is almost as old as I am, and has seen better days, but it has also been with me through every stage of life. It comforted me when I was sick as a child (and when I was hospitalized with a serious illness as a college student), and is now used as a throw blanket in my family's current home. I have other more beautiful quilts that are in much better shape that my grandma made (as does my daughter), but none is as special to me as this first quilt, quickly handmade with love to welcome a baby girl into her new family.

– Kymberli Wregglesworth

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