Remembering our Elsie

This Fall we lost a very special lady from our church Quilting group - her name was Elsie. She always had a smile for you or a hug. I knew Elsie from attending church, but it wasn't until I came to help the ladies with the t-shirt quilts my dad asked to me make, that I got to spend time and sharing with her. Boy, the stories she told us - like getting not one but two speeding tickets on the same stretch of road!!! At the time of doing all our prep work for the quilts we had to share the basement of the church with another group - but who knew what a blessing that would be for us. From what Brenda tells me, it made our group that much closer as we could not spread out in the rec room area of the basement, so you were able to hear and share stories of the present or ones from our past. It was definitely a cool experience.

At the end our Christmas dinner, Brenda shared that the star ornaments we received at dinner were from Elsie. Plus dinner was courtesy of Elsie too. She will always be in our hearts and she definitely was there in spirit with us enjoying our laughter. She was such a special lady - I was honoured to have known her. Below are a few photos I have of her.



Our church's first women's night - Bowling. Elsie was on my team, but the twist was that she was running late and she never showed up. As we had already put her name on the screen, we still included her, as we each took a turn playing as Elsie. Now the funny part to this evening - Elsie won best score for our team!!!! So when she met us at Cheesecake Cafe, she won the prize for the best score as an absentee bowler. We all had a good laugh over that.

After 3 months, we finished 2 queen size quilts of t-shirts my dad had (one quilt was of her marathons and the one in the photo are t-shirts that have special personal meaning to him). Elsie is the one standing on the right of my dad. It is cool for myself knowing the personal connection I will have with Elsie, and all the quilters when I look at those two quilts we did together.

Elsie along with Sheryl stop from quilting and posed for the camera. With the quilts being so large we ended up finishing them upstairs in the sanctuary of the church. All I can say - what special memories for myself and all the ladies you took put earlier this year.