Poppy's Quilt

Another baby quilt for a special little girl x

Peachy Princesses and the Pea

A peachy princess quilt, made with a mixture of gauze and quilting cotton which was really hard to work with, but worth it for my perennial favourite Heather Ross prints. The blocks were designed to show off the print of the princess perched atop her huge bed of quilts. Kind of how my kids were starting to look!

For Queen and Country Quilt

I made this quilt quickly and with tears for my brother to take to Afghanistan. He had two tiny kids, one a  newborn, and a, thankfully, strong wife. The news was full of terrible statistics, we all worried every moment of that 6 months. The quilt, and He, came home in one piece. We felt lucky.

Little Town Quilt

I made this quilt by improv piecing each little house based on pictures my kids made of a town.

They included factories and little thatched cottages and so much more detail than I might have conjured up for myself. This quilt was inspired by one I saw that year at the Festival of Quilts.

Hope Valley Baskets Quilt

Oh how I loved making this quilt and it remains one of my all time favourites today, as does this fabric line by Denyse Schmidt. Made using the baskets pattern in Quilts!Quilts!!Quilts!!! book ( a well thumbed book by now!) I loved the colours and the process involved in this quilt. I consider this quilt the beginning of my style now.

Feedsack Butterfly Quilt

A quilt for my eldest daughter. pretty hand appliquéd butterflies with buttons for antennae, lots of piok and gingham.

Sew Hip! AlphaDots Baby Quilt

 A magazine called Sew Hip ask me to design a simple baby quilt for them based on my circular design. This quilt gets published.

Max's Robot Quilt

A fun, bright boys quilt for a friends baby. A fab kokka print of little robots. I'm getting braver at playing with colour.

Raspberry and Lime Wheels Quilt

I can't find another picture of this quilt finished, but I know I have one somewhere so this will have to do for now until it turns up. It was made using Amy Butler and Kaffe Fassett dots in this gorgeous raspberry, paired with an oakshot solid colour, which has a kind of shimmer to it as it's a shot cotton. I made this using a rotary cutting template for the circles, but even so they were sooo fiddly to piece on the sewing machine. I threw in a few lime wedges just to add a kick. It ended up rather smaller than I had planned as fabric and patience ran out and I don't think i revisit pieced curves for a year or two!

Heather Ross Baby Big Bed Quilt

This remains one of my all time favourite quilts. Scrappy rectangles with fussy cut panels of precious Heather Ross Munki Munki fabric sourced all over ebay and etsy online. Matched with fabrics from my stash. I adore it. My little girl loved ( and continues to love) it. Its been washed a million times and still looks so vibrant. Pillow to match, appliqued circles stuffed from behind to give a 3D look.

Swirly Whirly Quilt

An experimental quilt using bias binding. Fun!

Flutterby Quilt

A fun baby quilt, hand appliquéd using the butterflies from Charlie and Lola as an inspiration.

Ducks In a Row Quilt

 More baby quilts. At this stage I'm obsessed with the circular hand quilting motif. Usuing graphic linear piecing but then softening it all down using the circular hand quilting.

Lime ChurnDash Quilt

Loving the idea of taking classic quilt blocks, using modern fabric and playing with scale. This quilt was a lot of fun to make and a shot of colour in the dead of winter.

Two Sisters Tilda Quilts

Simple practical matching baby quilts for my cousins little girls, made from wonderful Tilda fabric.

Peaches and Cream Quilt

A quick and simple baby quilt, time was a bit short with 3 kids under 5!

Autumn Wreaths Quilt

A quilt to my own design, hand appliquéd for autumn.

Butterflies Quilt

Another hand appliqué quilt for my big Daughter ( not to be upstaged by Baby Daughter, of course!).

Boys and Girls Quilt

The little paper cut out people here were hand pieced based on the templates in the Quilts, Quilts Quilts book. This quilt was little and intricate and lots of work. Perfect for whiling away the time watching a newborn sleep.

It's a Girl Quilt

My Baby Girl was born and I knitted this little blanket to coordinate with another dots and spots quilt.