I like your description of the detail and love put into that quilt. Too bad it was thrown out. Mom's don't always know what we hold dear, though, in their tireless work of cleaning and caring for the family. This poem reminds me of Earlene Fowler's Bennie Harper Mystery series. She's a very talented Christian author, and in her series, Bennie is the curator of a folk art museum that specializes in Quilts and she often finds herself mixed up in some murder mystery. I know it sounds a little "Murder She Wrote," but her books are really very good. Most of the books are based on a theme of a different type of quilt.