MILESTONE snapshots
I have been quilting for over 5 years, and until
I started on this quilt, my 21-year-old daughter Melissa had never shown any interest in my
work. But on this particular day, she started
watching me sew the rows together. By the time
I was half finished sewing the first two rows
together, she was taking the pins out when I
would stop sewing. When I started pinning on
the third row, she started handing me the pins
in true autistic fashion ... blue, yellow, purple,
blue, yellow, purple. Once again she took out the
pins and put them in the box as I sewed. When
I reached the end, she already had the next row
in her hands and placed it on top with the right
sides of the fabric together as they needed to
be and perfectly lined up the ends! She did this
through all 16 rows! You can see how proud she
was of “her” first quilt! I believe we have a long
future of creating together!
This is Sean. At
age 8 he still struggles
with letter and phonetic
recognition. At the end
of July, he successfully
sounded out and read
these words.
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