Hello Cuties! My daughter just found out a friend of hers was diagnosed with breast cancer and will have surgery next week. Marsha bought this fabric for me to hurry & make a prayer quilt for Michelle. For those of you that never heard of these quilts, I will explain. The layers, top, batting and backing are held together with short pieces of 6 stand floss like DMC, spaced about 4-5 inches apart. For each piece of DMC floss, a prayer is said and the stand is tied into knots, that are then clipped short so no strings hanging. The quilt is then presented to the recipient and told each knot means a prayer was said for her/him. Michelle’s favorite color is purple. The top is simple squares cut 4 1/2 inches. All fabrics were purchased at Walmart and are Waverley and David Textiles, so nice fabrics. If you can remember Michelle in your prayers, as they are aggressively treating her, removing both breasts. Chemo and cancer patients in general are usually cold so I made the quilt longer than the usual lap size prayer quilts, so she can tuck over her shoulders and cover her feet well. I ran out of floss so pinned until Marsha brought me more. I forgot to re-take another photo once we sewed it in. There was enough fabric to make her a pillowcase to carry her quilt into treatment or use with a pillow.
Thank you for prayers, for looking and I hope you all have a nice day. We are having so much rain here I’m beginning to feel waterlogged-🤣lol ❤️Toogie
Thank you for making this prayer quilt Toogie, you are such a good person to do this for her, love Chris
I knew about knotted quilts but not about prayer quilts.
The first quilt I ever saw was a knotted one. Shortly after WO2 my father came home with a packet containing a quilt as well as all sorts of groceries and two dresses my size. The company he worked for had a package from the USA for every employee. My mother did not like that the seams did not match perfectly but my interest for quilts was borne the day I saw it and I had to make one for my sister's doll from tiny remnants. Far from perfect, and I had to do it by hand as my legs were too short for my mother's treadle machine.
My daughter Marsha, Nae as we call her, is in her late forties so I'm assuming Michelle is around her age. She doesn’t want to take time off from work because she says it gives her too much time to think (about the cancer/surgery). Thank you for the prayers
