Carfts I am doing

first congrats on Grandbaby(s). One of my quilts is for a friend who is due in the fall. Sweater for oldest child as well as scarf. Other quilt is a mother's tears I started last July when we lost our baby girl. I am doing this one completely by hand and it will fit a twin bed. It is really cool that you have a friend that you can trade work with. I think that is just great.

So sorry for your loss. I don't think I've ever seen the Mother's Tear quilt. I'll have to look it up.

A woman from my church came over a couple weeks after our loss and brought with her her newest ongoing project (she is a quilt historian). It turn out that in the Appalachians where we are there is a tradition of taking the clothes and or materials for clothing and other items and making memory quilts called Mother's tears. Some use an infants christening gown others like mine use material from the quilt and bedding I was making for baby. There is not set pattern just that it helps a grieving mother to simply hand stitch and heal both emotionally and physically as it keeps you from doing other e more strenuous work. Her work was very interesting and I have to say when I looked into it a bit more I found other places that had or have similar traditions. There is a book called Small Endearments that has a nicely written chapter or two on different styles of this. Some put dates or born asleep while others (like myself) do not document on it.

Please do not think me silly but what in the world is a snood?