Precious Heirloom

This precious heirloom from my grandma is more than a little bit worn. Sewn with infinitely tiny stitches, it was much used before I was born. She was just twenty- three when she sewed it. Her beloved was fighting a war. Made I would guess for her hope chest, dated eighteen hundred sixty-four. She had added her maiden initials, so we know she was not married as yet. I wish she had told me her story, but my grandma and I never met. It was passed down to me from a cousin who had used it to cover her bed, without giving a thought that our grandma had made it before she was wed. I’ve handed it down to my daughter who now gives it meticulous care. This coverlet has long outlived the designer but is elegant proof she was here. Won no. 3 in "Anything Handmaid contest