Erin's Quilt

Eleven years after our first daughter, Jennifer was born we had another daughter, Erin.  It was almost like a second family with a gap of eight and a half years between her and our middle daughter, Celeste.  What a blessing to have a child when you are a little older.  She keeps us from getting settled into the "old" category as quickly.  If it wasn't for her, I would know absolutely nothing about the computer.  She's a whiz in this area.  She uses this gift in her job.  I homeschooled Erin from second grade through High School.  I learned alot in this process.  I homeschooled Celeste eleventh and twelveth grades also.  Celeste is the one who got me started in that,  poor kid, she wanted me to do it starting in Junior High, but I was slow to come around.  I do have some regrets here and there.  I actually wish I had homeschooled all three daughters from start to finish.
I made Erin a "sister quilt" (actually, I made hers first, as I recall).  I named it Cherry Cheesecake.

I was inspired by a quilt in a magazine that had pieced cherries rather than appliqued ones.  It also had vines all over it and I didn't care for that either. 

Erin wound up being my helper for a lot of my projects when she got a little older.  We painted backdrops for church cantatas, Sunday School classrooms that were kind of crazy, and even a Baptistry.  She also helped me teach art classes. 

Here she is at about one and a half years of age.  She was helping me here too.  Yum!

Erin and I enjoy gardening together.  She takes a week off in the spring to do yard work, alot of which we do together at her house.  And we always go shopping for flowers together.

Here's  a close up of her quilt.