Tuesday, January 14, 2025

New Holland panel quilt

This quilt came to me with an unfortunate story.  Grandma made a quilt for her first grandchild and then had another with a third one on the way.  Needless to say, she wanted to make quilts for the other two as well and after purchasing the fabric, she became ill with cancer and had to start chemotherapy immediately.  This made her really sick; she was unable to even think about quilting, but the fear of not knowing whether she’d get better made her ask a friend to make the quilts for her.  Luckily, this friend was one of our local teachers and an extremely perfectionistic quilter.

Quilt number one was made and she decided to keep the patterns the same for the two boys as they’d share a room.  I then too kept the quilting motif the same.

Here is the detailed quilting and back of quilt number one.