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!
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.
Another quilt was made entirely by hand but this time joined perfectly, not a bubble pucker or skew seam to be found. For a newborn, an edge-to-edge design was all that was needed.
This was quilt number 67 for this year and it concludes my quilting for 2024.
This was made simply using strips of Kaffe Fasset fabric to be used by the quilter as a wall hanging. It is a good example of how custom quilting on any densely printed or busy fabric is not worth it, as the quilting simply doesn’t show up.
This massive hexagon quilt was done by three generations of women, all done by hand. Grandma started it, Mom took over after her death and when she got tired her daughter offered to help. The only obstacle I encountered was the different types of fabric used to make this. There is denim, upholstery, polycotton and occasionally good-quality cotton. Some of these stretched more than the others and I needed help to avoid puckering. Therefore, the choice of this quilting motif is to shove the fabric around so the puckers won’t be all that visible.
