I hope you share with your grand just how emotional her gift to you was. And I thank you for sharing the moment with all of us!
I felt this way when I received several boxes of needlepoint canvases, vegetable-dyed yarns from all over the world, and nearly completed works of petitpoint and larger. They all came from my great grandmother who was a world traveler and collected canvases and yarns as we collect fabric and tools.
My own quilting history is in the Textile Museum at Colonial Williamsburg, a quilt made in Virginia about 1780 or earlier (their expert dating, not mine!). Since then, to the best of our knowledge, I am the first quilter. I taught my own mother to quilt; and her mother and prior were knitters, needlepointers, and embroiderers.
It's precious and grounding to know one's family history of needle and thread!
Jan in VA