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Made for Mary Anne
as a wedding gift. |
Grace
Birch came
to a family of ten girls.
She
married Forland Hyrum Mortensen in 1921.
In the
early thirties, she raised a large garden and
several chickens. Every Saturday morning
she would wash the eggs and go to town
and trade eggs for groceries.
Grace was
always very particular about her wash. The clothes
had to be just right, hanging from the longest
to the shortest.
Grace used
to have a hard time deciding what to
give her mother-in-law for a birthday
present.
One time Grace went and
bought three nice fabrics, 1-yard each
and gave them to her mother-in-law for
her birthday. Though her
mother-in-law loved the fabrics and was
so excited about receiving them,
Grace's husband said he thought
taking a good piece of material and
cutting it up into quilt blocks
was the most foolish thing he had ever
seen.
Grace made a quilt for each of her
grand-daughter's trousseau.
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