Sewing Play Food with Mom

I just returned from 5 days of caring for my parents.

This was the project I took along to do with my mom.

My mom is 87 years old and she suffers from dementia.

She can't remember what she did ten minutes ago but

she still remembers how to sew.

Mom has made hundreds of tied quilts over many, many years.

Baby quilts, toddler quilts, lap quilts, twin to kings!

Each one hand tied and hand stitched to finish the edges.

She was also an amazing seamstress making our 

back to school clothing, holiday dresses, and later curtains, 

dust ruffles, and pillows for our homes.

I have provided her sewing machine projects and hand sewing 

projects to do together during her illness. It had been a while since we

 had sewn together and I was thrilled to see how familiar working with 

thread, needles, stitches, and knots was to her.

These simple projects gave us hours of quality time together.

I loved watching her frail hands doing something that 

she once loved to do so much.

While mom probably doesn't remember our time together

or the cute play food that we created there is nothing

that can ever take away the moments we shared

threading, stitching, knotting, cutting, and fussing over

just how cute our projects were!

I love you mom !!!!!!