HEIRLOOM BEDSPREAD ~ PICTURE-FRAME GRANNY SQUARES ~ Pictured in 1/2 & 1/4 views

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Family heirloom made by my grandmother for her son, Eric Lee Baker.  When he was about 4
years old, he began to play with the box of squares made for many years from her mothers'
leftover yarns.  My grandmothers' mother had begun the granny-squares afghan but never went
beyond crocheting some squares and storing them away in a large box.  She never put any of them
together and gave the collection to my grandmother to continue and then to make the afghan.
She also gave her a lot of miscellaneous yarn scraps.   Eric would build roads with the squares
and run his cars & trucks over the highways he created.  As he grew,  he talked about having her
make a bedspread from them for him.  "It would really be warm" he coaxed.  (and indeed,  it IS
very warm, heavy weight).They both picked out the random designs together and she would
connect them in a picture-frame pattern-style.  He picked out the yarn for the outer binding
crochet from the yarn store.  It took 2 years to make and he adored it more with each addition
of squares.   He even slept with it (afghan-style) as both he and the blanket grew over time  but
eagerly looked forward to the day when it would cover his whole bed.  That turned out to be:
58 X 90 inches and weighed over 7 pounds when it was finished.
Twelve individual (4"X4" each) inch squares by twenty squares *240 individual squares in all  ~  Has been laundered and gently dried
Could not get the whole thing into a single photo because of its' size,  So it was folded in half &
photographed both views - then re-folded into quarters and again photographed so that you can
examine every single unique square...
April 1, 1996, Eric was killed just days before his Ferrum College graduation (
magna cum laude
),
in a tragic car accident caused by building supplies of  neglectful homeowner in Rocky Mount,
a few miles from Ferrum.
Why am I  telling you all this?  Because it has been stored away for 27 years and I think that it
is too precious to never be beloved by someone else ~ because so much love and happiness
went into its' creation and it doesn't seem right to leave it forever vacuum-sealed and never
used again.   So, at 78 years of age,  my grandmother has come to hope we can find it a new
home where it may be passed down as a warm, love-filled heirloom to other generations