Our symbol was more so neutral up until really the very end. It was important up until chapter seven when she left the ranch and went to Doctor Brown's house. After that we didn't get anything else on it until the very end, when Tita burned up the ranch.
It was a big symbol of hope to Tita when marriage might've still happened for her with Pedro. "Finally she went to her sewing box and pulled out the bedspread she had started the day Pedro first spoke of marriage (Esquirel 19)." The bedspread disappeared after Tita went to Doctor Brown's because that was when she had truly lost hope and given up on the idea of marriage.
