In progress - colourful pinwheel quilt

As I've mentioned, I recently discovered how easy it is to make quarter-square triangles and half-square triangles. This quilt was the result - I used a charm pack of 5inch square shot cotton plains, and some scrap pieces of Kaffe Fassett shot cotton stripes from my fabric stash. The colours are just wonderful I think! Just need to quilt it now - I'm hoping to spend a happy afternoon soon with my mum using her amazing long armed quilting frame. I'll post the results once it's finished...

Printer's tray cotton reel display

I love this old printer's tray drawer from an antiques shop - it's hung pride of place in my studio full of all my cotton reels.

Steve and Ali's rainbow quilt

When I was little, my mum made my sister and I each our own 'rainbow quilt' which she said had magic powers.  The rainbow quilts were always given to friends staying over to stop nightmares away from home or got out when either of us were poorly.  For years Lizzie and I wore our rainbow quilts wrapped round us as dressing gowns on Saturday mornings.

When my wonderful friend Steve got diagnosed with cancer, I made him and his lovely wife Ali this rainbow quilt - I wanted to give them something magic. It was a double bed sized version of my baby quilt design using Strawberry Fayre 1inch samples.

Easy baby quilt

This was a really simple baby quilt I designed using sample 1inch fabric squares from Strawberry Fayre.  They are each machine appliqued onto a 3 inch square of calico, and then sewn together.

My first quilt

This was my first ever patchwork quilt - a Kaffe Fassett pattern from his book 'Glorious Patchwork' which I've since used quite a few times (including a blue and white shirting version for a wedding quilt for my friends Adam and Bex).