Love Blankets

Completed Love Blankets

Rag Jean Quilt 

Tied Baby Quilt For My Niece


Who I still need to make one for:

Jane (mom)

Baby Chae'

Annika

Hubby

Will

Holton & Jasmine

I will add more names as I complete these.


How Love Blankets Got Their Start 

When I was nine years old my mother and my grandmother made me a quilt. As they were making this quilt, I would finger it and beg to know who it was for. I did this so often that my grandmother would threaten to skin me alive, hang me by my toes, if I did not leave it alone! I was a real pest when they were making this quilt. 

Little did I know that the whole time I was admiring the quilt, thinking that it was for some else, it was really was meant for me. They surprised me with the quilt for Christmas.

As I grew up this special blanket went on many adventures with me. Which included many camping adventures, four years of band trips, and too many sleepovers to count. Little did any of us know, that we were each helping to creating a Love Blanket.

When I got married, the Love Blanket came along with me to my new home. I would wrap myself up in the quilt when my new hubby and I watched TV. Each time I had morning sickness or a migraine, the quilt would give me such comfort that I often would feel better just having it around me.

When my first child became sick as a toddler I wrapped him up in the quilt, whispering in his ear that the quilt was full of my love. Knowing that he was wrapped in my love he would eagerly settled down for a nap. Later he would ask how the quilt held my love. I explained that each tie and each stitch was made with love by my grandmother and my mother. My love was a part of the quilt because I had used it for so many years.

After that the quilt was called the Love Blanket. Each child has used the Love Blanket at different times for comfort from sickness, surgeries, and unhappy experiences at school.

When grandma passed away I used the “Love Blanket” to feel her warmth and love again. It truly does bring great comfort to our family. Even my husband thinks that there is something special about this quilt, even though he rarely had the opportunity to have it around him.

Where is the "Love Blanket" now? Well, it just got done spending a year at college with my daughter Emily. It is in need of some tender loving, patching. It has given comfort for 30 plus years now. It is starting show some wear and tear. It is time to embark on a journey to create some new "Love Blankets" for those I love. My mother has cancer, and Annika has been diagnosed with a condition that leaves her tired and cold. This is the start of something wonder, creating and giving away "Love Blankets" to those in need of comfort. There is no better way to feel comfort than wrapping up in a "Love Blanket".