Of course my birthday is a national holiday. It's on my grandmother's quilt! Through the dirt, you can barely make out the names on the cake -- Linda, Bruce, Jenni, Matthew. There are a couple new patches next to it, the orange and pink prints.
Ruth Lord, my grandmother, created this quilt in 1971 at her home in Ipswich, Massachusetts. It was the quilt that comforted my brother and me when we were sick, that we huddled under on cold nights. Nana Lord restored a few patches and re-backed it sometime in the late '80s, early '90s (she would have been in her 80s!) but it still needs a lot of work. Can this quilt be saved?
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