Heirloom pieces that bring contemporary graphic drama and crafted authenticity to your interior

A machine quilt is about a week’s work. Quilting a double bed quilt by hand takes between 60 and 90 hours, usually distributed over several weeks.

Our original designs come from looking at the structures all around us in the world – sometimes in abstract art, sometimes in nature, sometimes in the built world. The colour palettes all come from things we’ve seen and places we’ve been. Some designs, such as the Shoeman’s Puzzle, are traditional patchwork designs, scaled up and made bold in solid colours.

You make patchwork by sewing (‘piecing’) multiple smaller pieces of cloth into a larger whole. It isn’t a quilt until you’ve stitched it into a sandwich with a backing sheet and a layer of filler or wadding between the patchwork top and the backing. This is ‘quilting’. If you do it on a special sewing machine called a long-arm, you get a machine quilt. If you stitch the three layers together by hand, stitch by painstaking stitch, you get a hand quilt.

Yes you can; just not frequently, regularly or aggressively. Every quilt is sold with care instructions, and they are on the here under ‘About the quilts’.

Yes. A Pemberton quilt can be made to order in any size you like, with a cost adjustment if it’s larger than our standard (double bed) dimensions or requires significant modification of the pattern.