Finished, at long last

When she was 13 my niece Goldie embroidered a set of quilt blocks. The next year my mother in law had the blocks pieced into a quilt top, and the quilt layered together and marked with the quilting lines. Since my father in law disliked having the quilting frame set up Grannie [mother in law] and I could only work on it when he would be gone for a few days. We had our longest stretches of time working on it during the annual out of state hunting trip our men went on. I think every woman in the family did put a few stitches in the quilt. As Grannie became less able or inclined to quilt I found that it was easier for me to quilt by placing the thing in a large round wooden hoop. Niece Goldie is now 47, so this has taken 34 years. I finished it on our June trip to Minnesota!!! Hemmed the edges, and Goldie is thrilled. I took pictures but they are very blurred [my digital camera is dying] I hope the ones my husband took turn out, and I hope we don't have to wait long for him to decide to get them developed.