Alejandrina Serpiello

About 3 years ago my husband and I found out that I was pregnant with our first child, a boy. Almost immediately I started deciding on fabrics and designs for a quilt to make for him. My mother taught me how to sew when I was a child. She made me a baby blanket (which I still have) and many other special items throughout my life. I knew I wanted to make my son a something cozy he could keep forever. I decided to make a soft flannel "rag" quilt with fun colors and prints that he would hopefully enjoy. I finished sewing it just a couple weeks before his due date, but he was born a week and a half past that date so I had rushed to finish it for no reason. Now my son is 2 and a half and loves his "robot blanket" as he calls it. He likes to hide under it pretending he's a bear in a cave or be wrapped up in it like a burrito. There are stars and moons that glow in the dark and he always points them out before bed. He wants it wound around him to act as his "reading nest" while we work our way through a big stack of books. I hope it is something he will cherish as he grows up. And that he'll know this quilt was made with all of his mom's love and hope. Maybe one day he will wrap his own child up in it.