Last year we had a mast acorn harvest from the local oak trees. There were so many you could bag them up without worrying you were taking food away from animals. Over the winter I used the acorns to dye up the charcoal sections of this patchwork quilt - it’s slow work as it takes lots of layering with the dye. It sits alongside a cream linen dyed with chestnut, with dashes of turquoise made with weld from my garden over dyed with indigo.
Patchworked into a spiral that makes your eyes dance a little, stretching out into a double sized quilt. I’ve hand quilted this one with a hand quilting cotton, much lighter in weight than sashiko but very strong.
The batting is 100% organic wool, making for a lovely, squishy weight and feel.
Top, bottom and binding is 100% linen, sewn with cotton thread.
Measures approx. 210 × 210cm.
Hand wash when needed with a gentle eco laundry liquid and dry flat.
Hand dyed and sewn in my home in Bath, UK.
*The first image is of me finishing the quilting, before threads were trimmed and the binding added
Last year we had a mast acorn harvest from the local oak trees. There were so many you could bag them up without worrying you were taking food away from animals. Over the winter I used the acorns to dye up the charcoal sections of this patchwork quilt - it’s slow work as it takes lots of layering with the dye. It sits alongside a cream linen dyed with chestnut, with dashes of turquoise made with weld from my garden over dyed with indigo.
Patchworked into a spiral that makes your eyes dance a little, stretching out into a double sized quilt. I’ve hand quilted this one with a hand quilting cotton, much lighter in weight than sashiko but very strong.
The batting is 100% organic wool, making for a lovely, squishy weight and feel.
Top, bottom and binding is 100% linen, sewn with cotton thread.
Measures approx. 210 × 210cm.
Hand wash when needed with a gentle eco laundry liquid and dry flat.
Hand dyed and sewn in my home in Bath, UK.
*The first image is of me finishing the quilting, before threads were trimmed and the binding added
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