A quilt for Stella’s nanny

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.

New Holland quilt number 2

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!

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.