This quilt – essentially a Christmas-themed quilt from a pattern in Quilter’s Companion – was my first properly finished quilt. I made it for my maternal grandmother, Nanna for Christmas in 2002.Quilted in the ditch at the time, as I’d no idea how to quilt it otherwise, it still stands out as one of my favourite quilts to make. Not just because it was for my beloved grandmother – and I was delighted to learn that she took such great enjoyment out of it – but because the colours, shades, fabric all just seemed to click together.
The border fabric was of lustrous red apples, bluest of blueberries and green leafy foliage, quite good for a fabric from Spotlight, which has sadly seems to have lost its great range of affordable and variety of quilting fabrics since then. The blocks are simple 9-square ‘Ohio Star’ blocks, which I’ve used again in other quilts due to their effective simplicity.
My grandmother passed away some 6 months after she received the quilt and the quilt has since returned to my possession, but I take comfort in the fact that she was able to witness my newfound skill with the very first quilt I made.
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