If all Pemberton quilts are unique, why is this a one-off?

All Pemberton Qwilts are made by hand with great care and attention to detail. Slight inconsistencies of manufacture arise from the different behaviours of the fabrics we combine. For this reason – and also because the supply of fabric changes seasonally – no two of our quilts will ever be the same, even the bestselling designs.

That said, here’s a especially unique, improvised patchwork quilt built from the remnants of the Connolly Indigo pieces I made last year, plus all the jeans that went into the upholstery of the porter’s chair. Brightened with spots of yellow and gold from Alhambra and Carnival palettes for Abask and from Sweet Dreams, a Viennese look began to emerge from the perpendicular piecing. Seeing this, I bound it with ends of blue silk, the rest of the gold stripe from the Big Tulip, and some Art-Nouveau-adjacent Liberty Tana Lawn.

It’s a perfect throw quilt and will stretch generously across a double bed and down the sides.

In the shop now. SOLD

Alma quilt patchworked in blue and yellow cotton, linen, velvet, silk, Khadi and viscose; backed in bronze stonewashed cotton, machine-quilted and bound in silk and cotton; 215cm by 143cm.