My only quilt from my grandmother is made of wool suiting material scraps and backed with grey striped pillow ticking fabric. The squares that make up the top are a mixture of reds, browns and blacks although I can't imagine anyone having ordered a red wool coat or pants back then in order to get these scraps. It was made in 1910 by my grandmother and her two sisters for her wedding in April 1912. Her sister Cecilia ran a tailoring shop in Guelph Ontario so had plenty of scraps. The quilt is heavy and was always on my mother's bed as a child and then on mine. My mom memded it many times (she used coloured denim and corduroy and I've mended it too although I got old wool suiting scraps from one of the older ladies at church who kindly shared a shoe box full. It's not a beautiful quilt but it is one of the very few possessions left from my grandmother who died in 1937. My daughter who is named after her great-grandmother will inherit it someday.