QAYG, and 6 months as a widow

I showed this toddler-aged QAYG, before completion.  I'm pleased with how it turned out.  The wide light figured fabric is all little colored tractors.  Oh, that is... tractors like they USED to look .  Seems that NOTHING is the same as it used to be.

Here is the back - I had a bunch of colored quarter yards, and could cut 4 backings from each cut, with a little left over for the current crumb blocks.  This QAYG was the most successful I've ever done, with almost ALL of the stitching in the back sewed in exactly the right place ON the sashing strip, not ON and OFF the sashing strip.  Practice, practice, practice!  

Being a widow:  I lived thru the 6 month anniversary of my husband's death by staying busy.  Those months went by so fast - unbelievably fast!  What a conflict I find myself.  I MUST be at peace with his death and his terminal illness, but heartbroken he is not here.  He left me a beautiful gift -- his very last words to me were loving and beautiful - I cannot ask for more.