I took my inspiration from a painting by Lyonel Feininger. I love his fragmented paintings of buildings and landscapes and decided one of sailing boats was something I could tackle.

My quilt includes just a few pieces of fabric with a lot of painting and couching. 

“I saw 3 ships”" Elements taken – plain tones of yellow, blue and cream, straight lines and 3 ships.

Techniques used – foundation pieced log cabin – 3 different sized blocks. Ink drawn sailing ships.

I saw boats, and sunset colours, so I did some applique - I was lucky to have some good sea and sky fabrics in my stash.

I couldn’t attempt to emulate Penny’s stunning minimalist seascape so looked at pictures of boats. I am a copyist and decided on a simple Christmas card (not copyright).

Boat photocopied onto white cotton fabric (ironed onto freezer paper). Hand applique, couching and embroidery. Zigzagged edge finish (Terry Grant).

A sailing boat was my image received and I immediately thought of the poem for the 2006 Athens Congress contest - The Crazy Boat. Techniques include curved machine piecing, machine applique, topstitching and buttons.  A sinking ship is how I sometimes felt during this ongoing pandemic.

I received a fun picture of a Greek boat which you can see the bottom of in the top middle of my quilt. I decided to follow the scene on and see what was lurking under the boat. This was another fun project, I could have gone on and on.

My photo is of the hypocaust at Chesters Roman Fort.

I inter-preted the brick pillars in a bit of an abstract way, with net to indicate the shadow.

The quilt received places standing stones in my mind. I thought of those seen in Llubljana, Slovenia, 2016. There were about 20 in a small park and it was the day the UK voted to leave the EU! Strip piecing and applique, couching, beads and twin needle quilting.

Elements taken – This quilt reminded my of a Japan-ese em-broidered ball (Temari) with a star stitched design. It gave me an excuse to use a favourite Japanese print feat-uring a temari ball and decor- ative cords.

Techniques used – hand quilted outline of the circular shaped temari accomp-anied by a sashiko hand stitched design based on a star shape.

I was delighted to receive another Japanese panel – this one depicting temari balls. Temari means 5- pointed star so I decided to make five 5-pointed stars. I bought the beautiful background fabric several years ago and finally decided to stop admiring it and actually use it.

I received a beautifully starry quilt: this made me think of seasonality and winter nights; what comes after winter? Spring. Tessalating mathem-atical shapes and using the lovely fat quarters bought for me for Christmas.

Original inspiration: illustrated card by Shirley Netherton “Rhodo- dendron Valley”.

My first Quilt ( September) “ Island View” The original source reminded me of a view from the top of the gardens at Tresco Abbey in the late Spring, looking towards St Marys.

Techniques used: raw edge applique, invisible machine quilting and free machine embroidery on palm and fern leaves.

Igoumenitsa beach. Brought back memories of a fabulous 2cv World Meeting; we drove their in a Citroën 2cv in 1999 and camped for a week with 2cv-ers from all over the world, making friends we still have today. Whenever I have to 'find my happy place' this is the image I have in my mind, although in my mind, I'm lying on a sun lounger with a bronzed waiter approaching with my favourite cocktail on a silver tray!

This tropical paradise took me back to my Scilly holiday. I combined two photos and tried an Ineke Berlyn-style landscape – didn’t quite work – I didn’t simplifiy and abstract the bay enough, but I like the darker “frame”.

Machine pieced (Ruth B. McDowall). Hand quilting and embroidery. Faced edge finish (Barbara Janssen).

I loved the image Jane sent me and wanted to keep essentially the same view but a different technique. My quilt is a whole- cloth painted with the fabric paints I use for block printing. I wanted it to look a bit like a 1930s railway poster.

When I saw Linda's quilt, the clouds just said "sheep" to me! I tried to keep to a similar colour palette.

Having received a panel with 3 black faced sheep I immediately thought of Baa Baa Blacksheep which in turn reminded me of Little Boy Blue - a bit juvenile perhaps but I couldn’t get it out of my mind.