The design is based on the fairy books by Cicely Mary Barker,  with their beautiful water coloured picture plates.

The quilt is of whole cloth construction in as much as the design was transferred on to the hand dyed backing fabric, then each piece was cut out, and using bonda web, ironed on to the backing cloth and machined in place. The fairies are machined with a small zig zag stitch, but the flowers are freely machined with extra detail added with further machining which is reminiscent of water colours. The majority of the fabrics are hand dyed using the hot water dyes, plus the transfer dyes on the synthetic fabrics, to give subtlety of shades, plus matt and shiny, which again is reminiscent of water colours.

I have been fortunate to have another quilt - Lord of the River, to be seen in my Quilt Gallery, selected to tour America and will be hung in the following places, it will be selected to be judged at the World Quilt Competition in 2011, and will be at the following venues -

21st to 24th August - Manchester, New Hampshire

September - Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza

October - Pacific International Quilt Festival, San Francisco

14th to 16th November - Grand Finale of the 2010 World Quilt Competition XIV at World Quilt Show, Florida