Comments on: You Down with EPP? Yeah you know me! – A Grandma’s Flower Garden Quilt https://sweetmamalife.com/2018/03/you-down-with-epp-yeah-you-know-me.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-down-with-epp-yeah-you-know-me Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Sharon Aguilar https://sweetmamalife.com/2018/03/you-down-with-epp-yeah-you-know-me.html#comment-1490 Thu, 02 Apr 2020 23:57:01 +0000 http://www.sweetmamalife.comyou-down-with-epp-yeah-you-know-me-a-grandmas-flower-garden-quilt/#comment-1490 In reply to Jaime.

I am so sorry for the loss of your mother! I agree – she was way too young. I am so glad you are quilting and have found a way to work through your grief and loss!! Your comment just made my day! Thank you 🙂

]]> By: Jaime https://sweetmamalife.com/2018/03/you-down-with-epp-yeah-you-know-me.html#comment-1488 Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:31:22 +0000 http://www.sweetmamalife.comyou-down-with-epp-yeah-you-know-me-a-grandmas-flower-garden-quilt/#comment-1488 My mother passed away 3 weeks ago, after a terminal diagnosis in early January. Brain cancer. In the week before they brought in her hospice bed (moved our sofa and rearranged her living space to its new and final resting place) my mother said she wished she’d taught me to sew (the way her grandmother had), so I went to a local fabric store and bought everything I could think of. My mother was able to tell me about English paper piecing and hexagons before she lost most cognitive function. I’m an English professor. I hadn’t even sewn a button on before this. Now I as I sit laboring over these little 1inch hexagons, finding my way through the whip stitch she taught me, poking myself, knotting up the thread, making mistake after mistake, I’m realizing more and more that it’s as if she knew I’d need to find a way to keep busy while I grieved this loss. She was only 65. Too young. Too soon for me to be without my mother, my best friend. I have no idea how long this will take (i have four six inch flowers complete) but I read your blog and wanted to thank you. It is a nice reminder that I’m making this less for the final product, and more for my mental health. 🧡🧡🧡

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