Bull's Eye

This picture from 2015 popped up in my memories today. Mom and her treasured "Bull's Eye" quilt. She finished piecing it and brought it to me for quilting ten years ago. This is the reunion photo of my mother with her fully finished quilt! Mom had a stroke in 1999. After a long recovery and rehab stint, she returned home but had lost her sewing mojo. It was this pattern: "Twenty First Century Bull's Eye" from the book Quilts from Aunt Amy by Country Threads that pulled her back into sewing and quilting! We assembled fabrics together and hand-cut the circles, it was a process but we persevered.

There was no stopping her after that, she was firmly back on the path. She gave the quilt to me a few years ago, for "safe keeping". It resides now on a quilt stand in our bedroom, I see it every day. Those memories of her comeback and all that this quilt represents are ones that are kept safe in my heart forever. But, when the above photo popped up on my phone from my digital memory file, it hit hard; I wasn't expecting it. Once I caught my breath, however, I smiled; this reminiscence sure did hit the target, it was a perfect Bull's Eye! 

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