Block # 24 - Character Quilt - Are You My Mother?

I have saved the very best block 'til last, not because it is my best work, but because it brings back the best memories of a little girl named Andrea Lyn.  We didn't have much then (hand-me-down furniture in a garage apartment and pregnant with her little sister (Teresa Rae) to be born on her birthday!), but we had lots of love and books!  How we loved books!  One, in particular, was requested every night at bedtime.  So-o-o-o-o, 40 years, and another generation later, we get to make it a permanent part of the love wrapped around our grown-up Andrea Lyn in the form of a quilt.

SNORT!!!!!

"Are You My Mother?" is the story about a hatchling bird. His mother, thinking her egg will stay in her nest where she left it, leaves her egg alone and flies off to find food. The baby chick hatches. He does not understand where his mother is so he goes to look for her. In his search, he asks a kitten, a hen, a dog, and a cow if they are his mother. They each say, "No."

Then he sees an old car, which cannot be his mother for sure. In desperation, the hatchling calls out to a boat and a plane, and at last, convinced he has found his mother, he climbs onto the teeth of an enormous power shovel. A loud "SNORT" belches from its exhaust stack, prompting the bird to utter the immortal line, "You are not my mother! You are a SNORT!" But as it shudders and grinds into motion he cannot escape. "I want my mother!" he shouts.

But at this climactic moment, his fate is suddenly reversed. The shovel drops him back in his nest just as his mother is returning home. The two are united, much to their delight, and the baby bird tells his mother about the adventure he had looking for her.

#24 - Are You My Mother?

I will now await the sashing and post fabrics to be picked out by the designer.  When I receive them, I'll post them so everyone can see what is chosen, and then I will get back to work on this very special quilt.