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2022 Plans

I'm a quilter.  Not an experienced one, but at least an intermediate level one.  It's a hobby I began as a young mom, abandoned during some busy years and am exploring once more.   We've been blessed with 11 grandchildren in just about that many years.  When the first two were due a few months apart, I decided I wanted to make them both a baby quilt that I hand quilted for them. Little did I know what an adventure that set me up for!  With each subsequent grandchild, I decided to use the same pattern. I had chosen an easy pattern for the first two since we only returned to the states, and my sewing machine, when the first grandchild was due the next month.  And I had made a number of these simple quilts for a hospital in India so I knew they would come together fairly quickly.  At least the sewing part of it, not the hand quilting. When it looked like we were not going to have any more grandchildren (after the first 9 had their quilts), I began to...