And the Last Batch

I guess I didn't get a picture of #16. Huh. Anyway, I put in the little feetprints instead. You can't really get the sense of how tiny they were, but take my word for it, in real life they were only about an inch tall, maybe an inch and a quarter.

Other Flowers for Sarah

I think the sunflower was one of my top two or three all-time favorites of the embroidered flowers. I was so proud of myself for conquering french knots. Before this, they would either just flop apart when I would try to cinch them up or else they would pop through the fabric.

More Flowers for Sarah

I had some of the flowers from the quilt guild I belonged to, and then some of them are...don't tell the authorities...rubber stamps that I scanned in to the computer and enlarged. Then I outline-stitched them all.

Flowers for Sarah

So my daughter Sarah was a preemie, and she only lived 16 minutes. Later that summer, searching for some way to make things ok, I made a quilt. I did 16 of these embroidered flowers, one for each minute she was with us. So here are the first four.