My Birthday Quilt - James Reed

For my 40th birthday, one week before we had to say goodbye to my mother, she gifted me my first quilt. After going through her phone and looking at all the pictures and messages and planning, she must have been working on this all year. She gathered a selection of show shirts from past productions I was in, that I choreographed, and that I directed. Some of these dated back to my high school days. She picked out the colors and arranged them in a pattern to display the shirts, so I can celebrate the shows I was a part of. She found a fabric for the backing that reminded her of the colors from the Pride Flag, and had it all stitched together with a Harry Potter pattern that we discovered for a previous project. This quilt was made with love, has so many meanings and stories attached to it, this was her creating LOVE and expressing LOVE through her craft. Thank you more for getting this to me and making sure I had and I had your hugs forever. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

- James Reed, Son