I received in the mail a picture drawn by my four-year-old great-grandson right before he turned five. It was a picture of him and his two-year-old sister with Grandpa By and Grandma Neenie (me).

I was so impressed with his artwork and immediately started thinking about how I could dislay it in a meaningful way. Of course, my first thought was a quilt. My second thought was all that embroidery floss my friend, Deb, had just given me from her mother’s stash!

So I put the two ideas together and came up with this quilt for Jonah. I traced all of the pictures onto white cotton rectangles, then started to sew while watching “Dateline.” I used scraps I had for the borders, but had to buy the back because I didn’t have anything large enough.

After he opened the gift at Christmas, looked it over, and tried to figure out how I got his artwork on that quilt, he turned to his little sister and said, “Andie, when you’re four years old, you will get one of these!” Glad I still have lots of floss!!!

After he opened this gift at our family Christmas party, his mom explained to everyone what the pictures represented. Going across the top by row: (1) self-portrait; (2) their Christmas elf on a shelf named Puffin; (3) rainbow; (4) the drawing he gave Andie on her first birthday; (5) caterpillar, spider, sunflower; (6) the drawing with Grandpa and me that started this whole thing, (7) Jonah with his mom, dad, sister; (8) bird and octopus; (9) the first person figure he ever drew