Our Mary is an exceptionally talented needle woman, and has designed so many beautiful patterns which we’ve run as classes, and sold as patterns and kits, & you can see a few of them here.
Mary used the Sophie mini quilt pattern in the book Little Handfuls of Scraps by Edyta Sitar as inspiration for these two matching quilts. One each for a child and their favourite toy.
The original uses scraps or a mini charm, and for the larger one Mary used 5″ Charm Squares instead. For these examples she used the I Believe in Angels fabric range. The Mini Charm pack for the mini quilt and two charm packs for the bigger quilt. For the lap quilt Mary followed the original pattern but using the bigger squares and added some extra rows to make the larger size. Look at the quilt top photos to see the layout she used and number of rows needed.
Mary made this gorgeous quilt using Brenda Riddle fabrics a few years ago that started as a Jelly Roll Race, but ended up as an alternative version of Rail Fence. It has little additions of small embroidered “heart felt sayings” on squares dotted throughout this pretty quilt, that were taken from an old magazine Vingette by Leanne Beasley.
We think it would look beautiful in Brenda’s latest fabrics which are called Grace.
One of Mary’s beautifully designed kits is this Care, Share, Dream Rotary Wrap made from Le Beau Papillon French General fabrics, perfect for carrying your rotary cutters, etc., with purpose made pockets inside.
There’s nothing more iconic here in Cornwall than a Mining Engine House perched high on the cliffs, & Mary’s foundation pieced pattern Poldark reminds us of this.
Mary’s kit been made by so many of our customers, who have sent them all over the world to friends and family to remind them of home.
