In progress - purple stripes quilt

I'm in the middle of making this quilt using lots of purply Kaffe Fassett shot cotton stripey fabrics - the first time I've ever made something to 'match our sofa', a phrase I used to scoff at when I heard people choosing to buy paintings when I worked in an art gallery. A sign of growing up or selling out?

Vasarely quilt

This quilt is based on a Victor Vasarely artwork called 'Tlinko'.  I made it as a present for my mum, who hung it on her wall in her government office! It uses the same basic applique technique that I've used before (see my easy baby quilt and Steve and Ali's rainbow quilt), this time with a few other not-quite-square polygon shapes to add to the optical illusion.

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.