I spent far too long looking at my stash of beautiful Liberty pieces, so I finally decided I had to make a quilt top from them. Then I couldn’t decide how to quilt it. Finally, inspiration struck and I decided it had to be flowers in the squares and leaves in the sashing. The quilting took a considerable amount of time, but listening to endless Radio 4 programmes and podcasts helped.

I quilted flowers in each of the squares first.

Then I added leaves with double edges in the internal sashing.

Next came smaller leaves in the single sashing surrounding the squares.

Finally, the most time-consuming element of all, I filled the white-on-white border with more interlocking chrysanthemum type flowers.

I made binding for it from another Liberty fabric that I used for the backing and then it was done. I’m happy with this one and I think it will be on my bed for this summer.