Mary Alice

I have been thinking about my grandmother, Mary Alice while I have been learning to machine quilt. She loved sew and do needlework. She cross stitched an entire quilt in her favorite color red for me to quilt by hand. My conservative Southern grandfather used to complain that it was the color of women of the night. I must have spent ten years on and off again hand quilting this quilt. I take it out every year as we near Valentine's day and think about Mary Alice.