Grandmother's Quilts

Everything right now revolves around "the move".  Mostly trying to take things from a spacious victorian house and squeeze it into a small cottage.  Things just have to go.  I have collected many quilts and plan on selling off about 9/10 of them.

I am fortunate enough to also own three of my Grandmother's quilts.  

 I decided to give one of them to my niece for her birthday, 

so I took photos of all three of them to help her decide.

It would be interesting to know how many more quilts Grandma made.  I was only two when she passed away, so I don't have any memory of her.  But I think I may have inherited her creative genes.  I don't know of any other ancestor that had a bent toward creativity.  I came across a note written by my mother this week, it said that grandma sewed without patterns.  What?! Have you ever tried to sew with a pattern?

I know that my mother also said that some of her quilt patterns were original as well.  She hand quilted each with with tiny little stitches.  So beautiful.  And they have held up so well.  My mother said that Grandma would have wanted them to be used.  So they graced twin beds in a guest room when I was growing up, and I took the four-point star quilt to college. They have all been washed often and well used, resulting in a buttery soft cotton.  I hope my niece will enjoy hers for decades to come.