My cherry tree has been blooming gloriously all week, it's almost Mother's Day; plus it is throwback Thursday and time for a quilt I made in 2004 entitled "Mother's Kitchen".
I made it as a tribute to my Mother, who always worked outside the home beginning when I started to school. Her kitchen was always cheerfully decorated, and we always spent time together there when she got home from work -- she preparing supper or folding laundry and I was talkative. Plus, the cherries -- she always made a maraschino cherry and nut cake for my birthday!
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| You would think I was the tired one by the way I am lounging; but Mother worked hard and always appeared this put together! |
The Stats: "Mother's Kitchen", 2004, 41"x41", Machine pieced, hand appliqued, and hand quilted. The pattern appears in my book, Traditional Two Block Quilts book, pages 65-70.
I couldn't pass up a photo op with the quilt and a cherry tree blossom.
I was a biological mother before I became an adoptive mom. At the time, someone told me that CARING not bearing made you a mother. For all the caring individuals out there, may you celebrate a joyous Mother's Day.
