{"id":8582,"date":"2013-07-24T21:11:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T01:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=8582"},"modified":"2013-07-26T09:05:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:05:05","slug":"a-beautiful-gift-a-quilt-filled-with-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=8582","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful gift: a quilt filled with butterflies!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cA gift of love from our heart to yours.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

In today’s mail I received a large Priority Mail box.\u00a0 It came from Lyric Kinard, who sent me an email a few days ago confirming my mailing address and that I’d be home to receive a “surprise.”\u00a0 While I knew a surprise was coming, I had no idea what it was.\u00a0 Thus, when I saw that box, I felt a wave of excitement.<\/p>\n

I opened the box to find a card written by Lyric. It was a “gift of love from our heart to yours.”\u00a0 She wrote about my earlier cancer diagnosis, relief that all went very well (I was extremely fortunate), and how she and others wanted to offer support in the form of a quilt — “a gift of love from our heart to yours.”\u00a0 She further wrote, “You are one of those people who quietly goes about making the world a better place with your generosity.\u00a0 This is just a small token of our love and appreciation for you.” Yes, I had tears in my eyes!\u00a0 Then I slowly unwrapped the gift, and\u00a0 there it was — a large quilt filled with butterflies!\u00a0 I have such a thing for butterflies and immediately thought, wow, how perfect!” At 65″ x 47″, it’s a comfy snuggle-on-the-sofa size!<\/p>\n

Although I feel totally undeserving of such a generous gift, I am very, very grateful for it.\u00a0 The quilt has blocks made by Nancy Billings, Sue Bleiweiss, Traci Bunkers, Lisa Engelbrecht, Jamie Fingal, Ginny Greaves, Mary Kerr, Susan Kiang, Kristin La Flamme, Nita Markos, Barb McKie, Virginia Spiegel, and Vivien Zeph.\u00a0 The beautiful fabric filled with butterflies and connecting all of the blocks was screen printed by Lyric!\u00a0 Plus it includes her “Fly” motif, which I always liked in her work and am happy to now have one of my own!<\/p>\n

I will thank each of you individually, but wanted to share this beautiful gift and thank you all here, too.\u00a0 The overall view of the quilt doesn’t do the quilt justice.\u00a0 I have photos of each block, which I’ll add here soon.<\/p>\n

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