Jessica asked me to restore Chad's quilt and I have fully enjoyed it. It was origanally made for Chad when he was a kid, by our Grandmother Miskin. She passed away 9 years ago. The women was a mother that made a living knowing how to sew. She then taught her daughter, my mother. Which then taught me. So you see why I loved working on it. Now it's almost done. I decided it was important to leave the hand quilting that my Grandmother did so I removed all the bad batting without pulling out any stitches or taking off the back. I then washed it real well and applicaded new patches on a front. My mother and I picked out fabric for the patches that looked like Grandma Miskin. She made this quilt out of scrapes and left over material she had used to make herself blouses and a bedspread. I remember her wearing some of these fabric.
I love my grandmother so much. I have always said that she was my best friend and I still feel that way. I have learned so much more about her working on it. She learned how to do quilts from the one that her mother-in-law gave to her for her wedding gift. It is not made like the typical quilts of the time. She used a flannel backing. She also rapped the backing around to the front to use as the binding. Both of the things were done of her wedding quilt. Because her mother died when she was only 6 years old this tells me volumes of how she looked to her mother in law for instructions.
My grandmother, Melba Miskin, influesed me in so many ways. Mostly she loved me always no matter what. Just as I could see how much she loved her Savior. I could always she the Savior in her face! She showed me how to love others. By never putting herself above anyone else. Have you ever met someone that made you feel so important. You felt so important and liked when you were around them you just wanted to always be around them? That was Grandma Miskin. I wish I could have been her sister so that I could have had her in my life more. But I know that I will see her again someday. My eyes and my heart swell up evertime I think of that day in heaven when I see her again.
So I dedicate the repairing of this quilt to Jozie and Haven. So that Jessica will wrap them up in it and say, "this is the blanket your Great Grandma Miskin made for your dad when he was your age." Then Jozie or Haven will ask, "who is Grandma Miskin" and Jessica then can tell them about their grandmother and all the love she had.
