Victoria and Albert quilts exhibition

coral leaves

The V&A is having an exhibition of British quilts, showing quilts as old as 300 years to the present, starting on 20th March - I can't wait! Here are some of my favourites from their website:

Bishops Court quilt 1690-1700

Rajah Quilt 1841 - made by convicts on board HMS Rajah on the way to Australia!

They are selling some extra special printed quilting fabrics through their website.

rose

india flower

stripes

hearts (green)

leaf (green)

ikat

These fat quarter packs are just too tempting:

pink

blue

green

Quilts

Lately, I seem to have become obsessed with quilts. About 4 weeks ago I decided that I had enough fabric scraps as well as some really nice fabrics to make myself and my daughter a quilt. Since that first thought, everywhere I look there are quilts! I found a few nice quilts on Anthropologie which are a great source of inspiration. Then they started appearing on blogs I read..... see below!

I'm sure it will be at least a year before I get a photo of my completed quilt on this blog. So for now here are the ones that I am inspired by.

tsk tsk

saidos da concha

kirin notebook

Here are a few from Anthropologie:

And a couple from flickr: