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Broken Line Challenge 2023

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The theme of this year’s challenge was ‘Broken Lines’.

We had 50 entries and all the quilts were displayed on the Modern group stand of The Quilter's Guild at Festival of Quilts .

The quilts will then be exhibited with ICHF at their Exeter, Farnborough, Glasgow and NEC [Birmingham] shows.

To view all the lovely quilts our members made please click here for a short video

A square quilt with a white background. The quilt features three black circles with a textured pattern, arranged diagonally. Black lines intersect the circles and form a grid-like pattern on the background. The quilt has a black border.

Dots and Dashes - Kathy Moore

Visitors Choice Winner: Modern Challenge quilts at Festival of Quilts 2023.

I focused on monochrome to emphasise the negative space contrasting black and white, while integrating broken lines as a key feature of the quilt. I used sequences of broken lines with variations in lengths, widths and spacing. Diagonal lines are integrated to add movement. The majority of the lines are pieced, while circles are appliquéd and quilted into the background.

A square quilt with a black and white color scheme. The quilt is divided into two sections: the left side has a white background with black vertical lines, and the right side has a black background with white vertical lines. The lines have a textured pattern. The quilt has a black and white striped border.

It's all in the Runes - Alison Mayall

Both Nordic Runes and Celtic Ogham are the earliest form of written script carved into rock. Stones with Ogham writing can be found in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, but rarely England. This quilt shows the words Laugh and Love, written in Ogham. I chose these two words as I feel a marriage needs both love and laughter to last the tests of time. The quilt is machine pieced using commercial fabric. It is both hand and machine quilted (straight line and freehand).

A rectangular quilt with a white background. The quilt features a colorful, geometric design with intersecting lines and shapes in various colors, including orange, blue, and green. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

Broken Crosses - Carol Dixon

This piece was developed from using the tutor box 'Wonky Crosses' at our Essex Modern Quilters group. Using a variety of low volume whites as a background and scraps of brights for the crosses. These blocks were then joined and cut up and re-joined. Enhanced with hand stitch quilting.

A rectangular quilt with a gray background. The quilt features vertical, wavy lines in shades of gray, with two bright orange lines in the centre. The background is quilted with a subtle, linear pattern. The quilt has a black border.

Lava Interrupted - Alison Mayall

The inspiration behind this quilt is the flow of hot lava through different rock strata and the rocks created by the eruption of a volcano, as seen in Hawaii. The quilt is made from both commercial and hand-dyed fabric, improv pieced. Quilting was both by hand and machine (straight line and freehand).

A square quilt with a colorful, geometric design. The quilt is made up of triangles in various colors, including pink, purple, blue, yellow, and orange. The triangles are arranged in a seemingly random pattern, creating a dynamic and visually interesting composition. The quilt has a multicolour border.

Jolly Chaos - Connie Wheeler

Using Tula Pink fabrics, I've gone for broken lines with colourful abandon in an unconventional manner.

A square quilt with a white background. The quilt features a geometric design resembling a family tree, with circles and triangles representing individuals. The shapes are connected by lines. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

Grandpa Doherty's Broken Line - Diane Russell

I've been researching my family tree for many years and my quilt represents my maternal grandfather's descendants. My broken line is the descent of my grandfather's surname. The triangles represent the men in my family, and the circles the women. I used batiks and grunge fabric for the piecing and reverse appliqué.

A rectangular quilt with a purple background. The words "Broken Lines" are embroidered in white thread on the fabric. The background has a textured, marbled effect. The quilt has a purple border.

Broken Lines - Grace Cheyney-Law

My inspiration came from Jackie Gering Walk book and what you could do with lines in quilting. I have never attempted this before, so it was a good practice.

A square quilt with a black background. The quilt features a colorful, geometric design with rectangles and triangles in various colors, including pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue. The shapes are arranged in a horizontal pattern, creating a sense of movement. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

Game Fever - Guiseppina Aleo

My piece is inspired by my childhood love of playing 'retro' computer games with my brothers! This will include a bold and contrasting colour theme and geometric shapes to create a flow of a broken path from the starting point to the gold coin, and not to 'game over!'. I aim for a fun, nostalgic make, using solid cottons and mainly piecing technique. Free motion graffiti style quilting will complement the overall aesthetics of the quilt.

A square quilt with a predominantly blue background. The quilt features a patchwork design with rectangles in various shades of blue and purple. Some rectangles have thin, horizontal lines stitched onto them, and there are small, yellow rectangular shapes scattered throughout. The background is quilted with horizontal lines.

Skipping - Heather Hasthorpe

I've been a fan of New York artist Erin Wilson's work for some years. She produces patchworks with tiny pieces and fine inserted lines and has influenced my improv piecing. I use cotton fabrics and like the idea of broken lines where the colour skips when you insert pre-pieced strips.

A square quilt with a black background. The word "broken" is spelled out in colorful letters, using strips of fabric in various colours. The background is quilted with a linear pattern. The quilt has a black border.

Broken - Helen Butcher

I enjoy playing with typefaces and I love foundation paper piecing. By using just two fabrics - both commercial cottons - the strides on the letters break up within each character. By changing the thread colour in the simple quilting, I accented the areas of negative space.

A square quilt with a blue background. The quilt features several horizontal, red strips of varying lengths, arranged in a staggered pattern. The background has a subtle, textured pattern.

Can Dad repair them? - Helen Clark

Like many people, we were brought up to repair things to save money (and use fewer resources). This was especially important when our daughters were young and they had great faith in our ability to fix things. These broken lines are in a pile waiting for Dad to repair them. I drew out a 'design', but there was a bit of improv piecing to fit the shapes together. Fabrics all used from my stash.

A square quilt with a blue background. The quilt features a geometric design with yellow shapes, including rectangles and squares, arranged in a vertical pattern. The background is quilted with vertical lines. The quilt has a blue border.

Rainy night in the city - Helen Gray

Improv blocks using techniques inspired by workshops with Cindy Grisdela and Brenda Gael Smith. Quilting inspired by workshops with Gill Towell and Christina Cameli. Makower linen texture fabrics. Machine quilted using a walking foot and Aurifil 50 weight thread as described in Walk by Jacqui Gehring. Flange binding.

A square quilt with a yellow background. The quilt features a patchwork design with squares in various shades of yellow and orange. Some squares have additional textures or patterns, such as stripes or dots. The background is matchstick quilted. The quilt has a yellow border.

Buttermilk Sky - Helen Howes

Minimalist blocks inspired by recent miniature work. Yellow is a neutral. Cotton fabrics including Oakshott shot cottons and commercial prints. Title from the radio while quilting: just got to love Hoagy Carmichael's songs. Matchstick quilted.

A square quilt with a black background. The quilt features a geometric design with diagonal stripes in black and white. The word "Broken Lines" is spelled out in yellow letters across the black fabric. The quilt has a black border.

Simply broken lines - Hilary Drake

I struggled for inspiration for this piece and made a list of lines including washing line, fishing line, train line etc. But none of them really inspired me, so I decided to simply make a modern quilt and break the line across it. Made from plain cotton fabrics and machine quilted.

A square quilt with a white background. The numbers "20" are made up of colorful patchwork triangles. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

Celebrating 20 - Jayne Emsden

To celebrate 20 years of the Festival of Quilts, using white on white and bright modern fabrics, I made half square triangles to form the number 20 in a broken form.

A square quilt with a blue background. The quilt features a patchwork design with squares in blue and white, arranged in vertical columns. There are also smaller, scattered squares in various sizes and patterns. The background is quilted with a curved line.

Husband's confusion - Jane Mackenzie

As my husband would say 'Aren't those stripes supposed to meet up?' Bless. Well, this quilt wasn't meant to confuse. The busy background fabric contains stripes, broken by simple four-patches and the four-patch stripes are broken by the background fabric. To ease confusion on the eyes and brain, the quilt has been simply machine quilted. All fabrics are cotton.

A square quilt with a purple background. The quilt features a pattern of yellow rectangles of varying sizes, arranged in a grid-like fashion. The background is quilted with a linear pattern. The quilt has a black binding..

The Morse Quilt - Jane Neal

I kept thinking of broken lines as dashes, and I love all the Inspector Morse/Lewis/Endeavour TV series. So, my broken lines are inspired by the theme music by Barrington Pheloung, represented by the Morse Code dots and dashes. Machine piecing spells out 'Quilt' twice (one upside down to give symmetry/added interest) in lime green and spotty fabric, on a plain silver-grey background. Machine line quilted in my favourite Aurifil thread named 'Celery'.

A rectangular quilt with a dark black background. The quilt features vertical, colourful lines in orange, pink, and blue, along with circular shapes. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

Under the Black - Jane O'Leary

The inspiration for this quilt came when I was painting a wooden gate black to cover some spray paint. The first few brush strikes only covered the face of the slats, leaving irregular multicoloured stripes in the narrow channels in between. To interpret this effect, I have used a rainbow striped fabric cut lengthwise into narrow strips to highlight different colours. The strips were cut into random lengths and joined with sections of black. The quilting both recalls the lines of the slated gate and hints at the spray-painted shapes now hidden under the black.

A square quilt with a predominantly purple background. The quilt features a patchwork design with squares and rectangles in various shades of purple. Yellow lines and shapes are overlaid on the purple fabric, creating a geometric pattern. The quilt has a yellow border.

Contrasts - Jean Quinn

Inspired and supported firstly by the fabulous Essex Modern Quilting Group and secondly by Maria Spiller's 'Disappearing Crosses' course, both of which encouraged me to move forward in my Modern Quilting journey.

A rectangular quilt with a vibrant colour scheme. The quilt features vertical stripes in shades of pink, orange, and yellow. Within these stripes are various shapes, including circles, squares, and rectangles, in a contrasting colour.

Broken Trust - Jennifer Bealing

So often we hear the phrase 'not just now' when a child wants something and thus, we break their trust and faith in us. I am using morse code symbols to spell this out in bright colours and using piecing and appliqué.

A rectangular quilt with a vibrant pink background. The quilt features multiple rectangular shapes in shades of orange and yellow, with black stripes. The background has a textured, wavy pattern.

Seven Spilt Strips

Lacking inspiration, I have taken the title literally, and sewn a strip of seven stripes, then broken them up and stitched them back together staggered with the red either side. Then there is the thought involved with the title. A little bit of alliteration is always good, hence seven split strips which could be extended to seven sewn and staggered split strips.

A square quilt with a patchwork design. The quilt features squares in various colors and patterns, including gray, yellow, pink, and orange. There are also diagonal lines of fabric intersecting the squares, creating a dynamic composition.

Criss-Cross 1 - Juliet West

Inspired by the 'Crosscut Blocks' tutorial by Debbie Jaske from 'A Quilter's Table'. Blocks are constructed with an 'X' in a contrasting colour, sewn together and then cut into smaller squares, rearranged and reconstructed. Cotton and linen, machine pieced and quilted.

A rectangular quilt with a vibrant, geometric design. The quilt features a patchwork of pink and purple squares and rectangles, with some areas textured with vertical lines. The colours create a striking contrast and the overall design is visually dynamic.

Line, Interrupted - Juliet West

Here, I interpreted the theme of 'Broken Lines' as much in the improv construction technique as in the design. Following Sherri Lynn Woods 'Score for Strings' and using a limited colour palette, I cut strips, joined, recut and recomposed them. With organic straight-line quilting, I added another layer of almost meeting lines.

A rectangular quilt with a black and white color scheme. The quilt features a geometric pattern with vertical lines and shapes, creating a sense of movement and rhythm. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

Meander - Juliet West

Black improv stripes meander up and down this quilt on a white background, using plain black and white-on-white printed cotton. Binding is the same white fabric, overprinted by hand with black stripes created with textured paper straws. Hand quilting is in black and white pearl cotton, which appears and disappears, depending on the background colour.

A rectangular quilt with a dark blue background. The quilt features a vibrant, abstract design with geometric shapes in orange, yellow, and red. The shapes are arranged in a seemingly random pattern, creating a dynamic and visually interesting composition. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

After Tammy - Karin Pope

In April 2023, I signed up for a workshop with Tammy Silvers called 'Pointed Comments' - a mostly improv piecing technique to make beautiful diamonds. I really enjoyed the workshop and the technique, so much so that it was the basis for my challenge piece, although no diamonds! The quilt is entirely pieced using my favourite Kona Solids, matchstick quilting and is faced.

A square quilt with a dark blue background. The quilt features the phrase "I must not talk in class" repeated multiple times in a grid-like pattern. The phrase is written in colorful letters, with each letter made up of small, colorful squares. The background is quilted with a linear pattern. The quilt has a colourful border with the phrase "You have no power over me!" written in white letters.

Adolescent Anarchy - Lesley Bell

Lines were given as the punishment to pupils for minor rule infringements. When completed and handed in, the teacher simply ripped them up in front of the pupils and then threw them directly in the bin causing resentment. It was designed to break a child's spirit and instil the required behaviour. It failed. In this case the pupil has written 'You have no power over me!' as a form of 'up yours' protest. Therefore, written punishments, physically broken by coloured lines, are symbolic of the destruction of the writing by the teacher. The coloured lines, which are themselves broken by black breaks, add to this. The brave (some may save foolish) anarchic statement at the right hand side indicate the pupil's true feelings. Materials: unbleached calico, home procion dyed cotton percale and a fabric marker pen. Machine pieced. Machine hand quilted.

A square quilt with a vibrant orange and red gradient background. The quilt features a repetitive, abstract pattern of small, white lines creating a textured, almost pixelated effect. The lines are arranged in a radial pattern, radiating outwards from the center. The quilt has a red border.

Awakening - Linda Lyons

These two fabrics spoke to me. I love Kaffe Fassett's bold and geometric designs and I have recently discovered Ombré with its beautiful colour gradation. I have never before worked with orange so this has been a revelation - the combination of these two fabrics inspired me to use them for the broken lines challenge. I enjoyed making the skinny strips and I love the way the breaks allow them to 'weave' through and play with the different ombré bands of colour. The light shades stand out on the darker strips and vice versa. The radiating lines of quilting could represent rays of sun and the orange palette reflects the colour of the sun rising at dawn.

A square quilt with a white background. The quilt features a colorful, geometric design with shapes in orange, yellow, blue, black, and red. The shapes are arranged in a seemingly random pattern, creating a dynamic and visually interesting composition. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

After Ben - Lynne Newell

I have tried to interpret the style of Ben Nicolson, which spoke to me of broken lines.

A rectangular quilt with a white background. The quilt features vertical lines of colored rectangles in green, blue, and red. The background is quilted with a subtle linear pattern.

Lines interrupted - Mair Dyer

I decided to make a simple design with blocks of colour so I played around with some squared paper and coloured pens until I was happy with the design. I used three colours of Kona cotton by Robert Kaufman and a lightly textured white fabric, Thatched, by Robin Pickering. I constructed lines of colour interrupted with white fabric and then inserted these into the white background. I used Aurifil 50 weight for piecing and I quilted with Aurifil 28 weight in matching colours to the fabric. The piece was finished with a flat facing.

A square quilt with a blue background. The quilt features three colored hexagons, each symbolizing a different zodiac sign: a green dragon, a red dragon, and a yellow scorpion. These hexagons are connected by lines to three figures at the bottom: a black figure, a red figure, and a green figure. The background is quilted with a textured pattern.

The Roc Fight - Margaret Bradley

A Rokkaku (also known as a Roc) is a traditional six-sided Japanese fighter kite. 2 or more people fight with these kites, the aim is to cut your opponent's kite line and the winner is the last kite flying with the line intact. The quilt shows a 3 person Roc fight where 2 of the lines are broken, as they have been cut by the line attached to the red man's kite. It is made using piecing and machine appliqué with free motion quilting to show the clouds and texture on the grass.

A square quilt with a black and white checkered pattern. There are yellow circles placed on some of the squares, resembling a board game or puzzle. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

Dash Dash Dot - Margaret Ruth Howell

This quilt is chequer board of white and navy with yellow circles and bars. The quilt is machine pieced with hand appliquéd circles and machine quilted with diagonal lines. The edge is finished with a facing, the materials used are all cotton. My inspiration is morse code it is in pattern of dashes and dots, a broken line is a dashed line, so dash dash, dot. My quilt says 'hello smile' each line is one letter.

A square quilt with a blue background. The quilt features a pattern of black lines of varying lengths, arranged in a seemingly random pattern. The background is quilted with a grid-like pattern.

Secret Code - Margaret Stickland

Inspiration came while teaching cub scouts and Morse code. Thinking that would be interesting to try and make a quilt with a secret coded message. Maths not being my string point, it was a challenge to get my message on 20-inch square. Made with cotton fabric and batting, machine pieced and quilted. My message reads 'In my dream world fabric is free and sewing makes you thin.'

A square quilt with a white background. The quilt features a colorful, geometric design with vertical lines in shades of red, orange, and yellow. The lines are arranged in a staggered pattern, creating a sense of movement and rhythm. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

I am a Romantic - Even raindrops are pretty - Michaela Knight

I had this lovely Ombre fabric in my stash for ages and never found the right project for it. Above our dining room door is an old gutter that drips water through the odd gaps. When it rains heavily, I can see the drops falling in different patterns. And sometimes, when the sun comes out and the gutter still leaks, you can see a rainbow through the drips. That's where the idea came from!

A square quilt with an orange background. The quilt features a diagonal band of colorful rectangles in shades of green, blue, purple, and gray. The background is quilted with a textured, swirling pattern.

Aviemore Adventure - Michelle Peet

The inspiration was a trip to Aviemore that we make frequently. I have taken the colours I saw in April 2023 and put them at the side of the road. The breaks in the road were when I had to stop for a toilet break. The quilting tries to interpret what each colour represents. Backing was chosen because I love red and there was no red on the front. Afterwards, I realised that the mustard flowers match the background on the front. A lucky accident.

A rectangular quilt with a rainbow-colored design. The quilt features vertical stripes in shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The background is quilted with a linear pattern. The quilt has a colorful border.

Broken Rainbow - Muriel Markland

I had a jelly roll of Kona solids in bright colours which reminded me of a rainbow. We never see a full rainbow - does that mean it is broken? Made from Kona solids and quilted using decorative stitches with Aurifil thread.

A square quilt with a yellow background. The quilt features a geometric design with overlapping shapes in pink and red. The background is quilted with a wavy pattern. The quilt has a red border.

Broken Tiles - Muriel Markland

After making a quilt from bright yellow and various tints, tones and shades of red, I saw the offcuts lying on my cutting board and thought they looked like broken tiles. I wondered if they could be put back together to make lines of pinks and reds on a yellow background, but I could only make these haphazard broken lines.

A rectangular quilt with a blue background. The quilt features a circular design with concentric circles in shades of purple. There are also yellow circles scattered throughout. The background is quilted with a linear pattern. The quilt has an orange border.

Fine Line Dashes - Muriel Markland

Following Brenda Gael Smith's Dreamline's project, starting in January with fine line dashes, I made a long strip of pink fine line dashes and a small strip of yellow ones and joined them in a log cabin way. This gives the illusion of broken lines in both directions. I added the circles to suggest a vehicle had broken the lines.

A square quilt with a white background. The quilt features a series of concentric ovals in orange and gray, creating a sense of depth and dimension. The background is quilted with radiating lines.

Merkland Street Station - Niccy Smith

I love travelling on any underground! Merkland St subway station is a ghost station on the Glasgow subway system, otherwise known as the clockwork orange. Merkland St opened in 1896 and closed in 1977. I used bella solids for this quilt.

A square quilt with a predominantly beige background. The quilt features a geometric design with intersecting rectangles and curved lines in shades of orange, blue, and gray. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

Broken Rails - Pamela Miller

The broken line fabric from my stash was the inspiration for my piece, using fabrics from the colours of the broken lines. Then, by using different widths to make 16 x 5" blocks, I stumbled upon an update of the traditional rail fence block, with a 1/4" binding to frame this piece, it became Broken Rails.

A square quilt with a black and white color scheme. The quilt features a dynamic, wavy pattern with curved lines and textured surfaces. The background is quilted with a linear pattern. The quilt has a black border.

Wave - Paula Rafferty

Looking at optical illusions, playing with striped fabric and researching how we see. Investigating the interaction of patterned and plain fabric on the senses. Machine pieced and quilted. Cotton fabric and batting throughout.

A square quilt with a black and white color scheme. The quilt features a series of concentric squares and circles, creating a mesmerizing optical illusion. The background is quilted with a linear pattern. The quilt has a black border.

Broken Square - Paula Rafferty

Looking at optical illusions, playing with striped fabric and researching how we see. Investigating the interaction of patterned and plain fabric on the eye and senses. Machine pieced and quilted. Cotton fabric and batting throughout.

A rectangular quilt with a gray background. The quilt features horizontal bands of color, including yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, and blue. These bands are interrupted by smaller, colorful shapes, creating a dynamic and playful composition. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

Bright Interludes - Pauline Young

This is my response to the prompt 'Broken Lines'. I have used inserts of bright colours in a dull background, representing the fact that even the dullest days have some brighter moments. Cotton fabric, Aurifil thread, machine pieced and quilted.

A rectangular quilt with a vibrant, warm color palette. The quilt features a patchwork design with rectangles, triangles, and squares in shades of orange, red, brown, and yellow. The shapes overlap and intersect, creating a dynamic and visually interesting composition. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

Trees in Autumn - Ruth Case

Background in Autumn colours, improv piecing in strips with tree like fabric. This was broken into pieces and joined at an angle to resemble a broken stem or branch. Cotton fabric mostly in single colours and some home dyed. Quilted in lines or interlinked squares pattern.

A square quilt with a dark blue background. The quilt is divided into four sections, each featuring a colorful, abstract design with intersecting lines and shapes in various colors. The background is quilted with a linear pattern. The quilt has an orange border.

Equality, Diversity and the Power of Orange, II - Sally Barclay

I wanted to take the Pixie Sticks quilt block a few steps further. This is my first foray into designing my own layout rather than a pattern. I wanted to move away from my normal low volume background and try something new, so chose the grey. Adding orange gives the quilt some zing. Machine pieced and quilted using commercially available fabrics and Aurifil thread.

A rectangular quilt with a yellow background. The quilt features a brick pattern, with yellow bricks and white mortar. A black line cuts through the brick pattern, creating a visual divide. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

A crack in the wall - Sarah Hyde

I was looking out of the window searching for inspiration. I have a walled garden and was thinking the bricks formed a good line pattern. What if there was a crack in the wall? Then the lines would be broken. So, there was my inspiration. I made my bricks one strip at a time and then cut each strip to add black for the crack and then added some extra black to move the middle section down a bit. All machine pieced and quilted to look like bricks.

A square quilt with a predominantly red background. The quilt features a geometric design with black and orange shapes, creating a sense of depth and dimension. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

Shattered 2023 - Susan Brown

Inspired by the Jacquie Gering Quilt 'Shattered' in her book, 'Modern Quilting', this quilt resonated with me for the Broken Line challenge and for the emotional journey that 2023 is taking me on. My quilt has asymmetrical borders for negative space; straight and unequal line quilting, using a walking for and with a piped and faced binding creates a modern look. I have used Oakshott fabrics and improv piecing techniques to create the broken lines. The hidden depths of the colours within the Oakshott fabrics may find em a plain fabric convert after all and I have enjoyed the distraction of making this quilt.

A rectangular quilt with a white background. The quilt features a blue, vertical line cutting through the center, with a colorful, patchwork strip on either side. The background is quilted with a diamond pattern.

Interrupted Idyll - Vicky Grainger

This was inspired by a collage I made. I am particularly interested in bisected forms and the negative space thus created speaks. The javelin/billiard cue shape is a recurring theme in many of my collages. I am very fond of playing with scraps and made my 1st till roll quilt whilst recovering from covid. This is my 2nd use of the technique, the main construction technique being foundation piecing.

A square quilt with a dark background. The quilt features colorful, rectangular strips radiating outwards from a central point. The strips are in various colors, including pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue. The background is quilted with radiating lines.

Rainbow Shards - Wendy Couperthwaite

My inspiration is from being at sea, seeing stormy weather and fragmented rainbows. The inspiration for the technique is from Helen Howes 'Garden in the rain'.

A square quilt with a white background. The quilt features a colorful, geometric design with squares and rectangles in shades of blue, green, and yellow. Black lines intersect the shapes, creating a dynamic composition. The background is quilted with a linear pattern.

The Road Home - Yvonne Romain

Inspiration for this quilt came from using a map to go on a retreat. My original idea wasn't sitting well. So I had an idea to loosely use the map for my journey home to Yorkshire. The A1 and the M2 have been familiar roads in the past and the M18 crosses from the M1 to the A1 as they are main roads. I have left them slightly wider than I would usually. Skinny strips wouldn't have been as visual for this piece.

A rectangular quilt with a blue background. The quilt features vertical, yellow lines of varying lengths. The background is quilted with a subtle, linear pattern.

Snapped Spaghetti - Anna Owen

After learning why spaghetti usually snaps into 3 pieces, I thought of a brittle mum, keeping everything together until her child requests another serving of 'just pasta on it's own' - and snapping! This quilt was inspired by the many servings of 'just pasta' I have prepared over the tears for my little boy (who is now taller than me!)