Lizzie's quilt

I recently spent a weekend at my mum's house where I slept under a quilt I'd completely forgotten having made years ago for my sister Lizzie.  It's a scrap quilt made of lots of snuggly textures - flannel, corduroy, velvet, suede.

Griff's baby quilt

My friend Rhys and his partner Nia recently had a beautiful baby boy called Gruffyd.  I made them this baby quilt using scraps of shirting fabric, and simple quilted lines on every other strip block.

In progress - pastel scraps log cabin quilt

I woke up really early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep for thinking about my sewing Sunday ahead - so I got up and started playing in my studio. I hadn't planned to start a new quilt (I was intending to actually finish some of the several nearly-finished ones that need backing) but began rummaging through some scraps and before I knew it I'd made a couple of these log cabin blocks. I was on a roll, so just kept going! I'm not sure where this will end up - either I'll make a load more and sew them into this light/dark diagonal colourway, or I might mix them up with some half square triangles (I spotted this quilt by April Two Eighty on Pinterest and am quite inspired to do something similar...) I'll keep you posted!

Wreath of tiny fabric scraps

Every time I make a quilt, I hate to throw away all the scraps that are made when I've straightened edges and trimmed blocks. For my colourful pinwheel quilt, the fabric scraps were all such fantastic colours I decided to salvage them and turn them into this wreath! All I used was a wire coat hanger, straightened out and curled into a circle, then the ends taped together with some strong white electrical tape. I spent a happy hour idling on the sofa in front of the fire tying the scraps on while we watched a film, and then finished it by tying a piece of ribbon on to hang it from my studio door.

In progress - pink baby quilt

This is another quilt that needs backing - a baby quilt made of some old cushion covers I'd originally made from a charm pack of pink patterned fabrics. I cut the cushion covers up into random width diagonal strips and then sewed them together to make one higgledy-piggledy log cabin.

In progress - shirting scraps baby quilt

This is the front of a baby quilt I still need to finish. It's made with scraps left over from the wedding quilt I made for my friends Adam and Bex - vintage shirt fabrics from Worn and Washed.