Fanoe quilt

My red and white quilt has been published in 'Kludemagazinet', the Danish Quilt Guild's magazine.

If you would like the instructions in English, it looks like they will appear in 'Fabrications' sometime next winter - so you have an excuse to start collecting red and white fabrics now.


The quilt is being raffled to raise funds for the Quilt Museum, York.  However, the quilt needs to 'earn it's keep' a little first.

Red & White Quilt exhibit in New York & my Fanoe quilt

Mary Jenkins on her "Little Welsh Quilts and Other Traditions" blog (see my blog list) mentions an upcoming exhibition of red and white quilts in New York. Lucky thing is going to see it too! Click the link to read her blog post and get links to exhibition info too -

Red & White Quilts on Mary's blog

Red and white is such a fresh combination for quilts. The old quilts used the colourfast Turkey Red dye - we have to be a bit more careful with our reds nowadays, as they aren't always colourfast.

The quilt in the photo above is my Fanoe quilt, which will be in the Danish quilt guild's magazine "Kludemagasinet" next year. It was longarm pantograph quilted by Pam Ablett at The Quilter's Trading Post, Whitchurch.

Red and White quilt

This quilt has been in my sketchbook since my trip to Fanoe, Denmark in September 2009. The block is inspired by the front door windows in Sonderho, a beautiful village on the southern end of the island. You can just glimpse the front door on this house - see the little diamond shaped window? I put them in the middle of my blocks (there's a picture from another house here). The colourway is inspired by the Danish and English flags, which are almost opposites of each other - white on red and red on white (although of course the position of the cross is a little different).


Antique Dutch tiles are seen all over the island too (they were brought there as ship's ballast), so I was also thinking of those a bit when I drafted the block. There's a tile museum and restaurant in Sonderho, where I snapped these (another quilt sometime!)



Takenoko has been supervising through the workroom window. I took a chance spreading those blocks out on the bed, as he usually wants to "help", but I think he was still out.