When I first approached Good Shepard Hospice about making a quilt for one of their patients, I felt very nervous. After my first conversation with Cleo I knew I was doing what I was supposed to do. Cleo knew she didn't have long to live because she had lived longer than the doctors had predicted. She was so sweet and ever so grateful for her quilt. I'm not sure who had more fun creating it - her or I. She had so many stories to tell me. I loved her pictures. She gave me faded wedding pictures along with little momentos from their honeymoon, many beautiful pictures of her kids along with nicknames, pictures of her as a school girl up through her nursing school pictures, etc. It was definitely an honor to make a quilt for Cleo. She wrote a story about her life in the mountains. "A good education was considered an impossible dream, especially for a girl, but Gratitude For Shoes tells how one little barefooted mountain girl overcame almost insurmountable obstacles in order to achieve that goal."
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