As grandmother fondles the old patchwork quilt it brings reminiscences of her early life. She met Jim at an old-fashioned country dance and they were soon married. When the Civil War came, Jim went to the front with a uniform made by grandmother, a piece of which was saved for her quilt. She and her son stood by the window waving good-bye. Jim never came back and that is the end of grandmother’s story. The son grew up and had children of his own, but life was never so sweet for grandmother as the time when her Jim was alive.