This was
made by a grandma for her adult grandson and if I don’t have this wrong, he
chose the colours.
This was a
variation of the Ribbon Pole quilt by Rob Appel and the maker apparently had
several sessions with the seam ripper.
For this, I chose the "Loop-de-loop" as an allover design.
It
turned out rather striking.
The quilter made the centre sampler many moons ago and when she heard of someone hinting to own a quilt, she decided to add plenty of borders to make it larger.
I love
doing a sampler and with all these borders, I would not have minded to have
this hanging in my frame room as an example of all the different motifs that
can be done in a border.
As much as
I quilt, I do occasionally run out of ideas.
This quilter sent me a message, wanting to book a quilt for mid-January, and told me she had made a quilt for Stella’s nanny. Now I see a lot of quilters and yes, I have conversations with all of them, be it about their families, friends, quilt groups or just things happening in our city. I do listen but sadly, I cannot always remember everything.
After
reading her message I thought who the heck was Stella and if she told me about
her, I would obviously not have taken it in properly.
Upon her
arrival with the quilt, I asked her about this Stella and it turned out to be
their rescue dog. I knew all about her
but I already have trouble remembering human names, so I never bothered to
memorise this name.
Whoever
Stella’s nanny is, is a very fortunate person to receive such a stunning
quilt.
This is the almost twin quilt referred to in the previous post. When I finished the quilt, I named it “tractor” panel. Shows how little I know about farm machinery. My son-in-law said it was a beautiful “New Holland” quilt. I questioned him about the name because he knows nothing about quilting and I’ve never heard of a New Holland quilt. Turned out the picture I thought was a tractor was a harvester with that name!
