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My top 5 favourite quilts – and one bonus mention

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Choosing only five quilts out of the nearly 100 that I’ve made was easier than one might think. In this post, I share the chosen top five and one bonus quilt. If you enjoy scrappy quilts and bold colour combinations, you may find ideas and encouragement for your own projects. All of these quilts are examples of how value contrast matters more than colour choices. What makes a quilt become a favourite? My favourite quilts have all evoked a specific feeling in me. Surprise, delight in discovery, satisfaction of applying a gained insight, accomplishment, joy, and pleasure. 1. Empress Ramandu – strange blocks turned into a surprisingly lovely quilt Empress Ramandu quilt is one of my favourites because it surprised me so pleasantly. When I was sewing the blocks for my quilt Empress Ramandu, I honestly began to worry about the result. The fabrics looked strange together, and I thought that I would have to use the eventual quilt as nothing more than a picnic quilt. At the same ti...
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Splendid colour tips for quilting: Greys in quilts

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Grey is one of the most – if not the most – versatile neutral colours in quilting. It is a softer colour than black, and it will help your highlight colours stand out. In this post, I share practical tips about the use of grey in quilting using my own quilts and quilted items as examples. Grey represents neutrality, simplicity, peace, future-orientedness and logic. Grey is not an emotional colour, and it is associated with technology, industrial activity, control, professionalism and even with elegance. Not all greys are colourless – a pure mix of black and white. There are all shades, ranging from yellowish to purplish and brownish: And then there is the special brown-grey colour called taupe. Taupe is the colour that is just as brown as it is grey. The word “taupe” comes from the French word for mole whose fur is of that colour. It may be that quilters find taupe more interesting than other people because Japanese quilters use it abundantly and in very chic ways. They are maste...
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Curious quilt: a modern, twin-size quilt finish

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Welcome to my second quilt finish of the year! Today I’m sharing my brand new Curious quilt (Utelias in Finnish). It is a twin-size quilt sewn of two different blocks, and a project that I started in September 2025. I finished the quilt top in Febrary and shared the full start-to-finish piecing process earlier in my blog post about the 16-patch- and X-blocks in a quilt surface. In this post you’ll get: Proof that quilting makes the surface come to life Many pictures of this quilt Summary of quilt details for this Curious quilt.  It felt great to photograph this one on a sunny afternoon. My lovely husband is a seasoned quilt-holder and most of the images from the photo shoot came out great. This is the first test block – or block-and-a-half – that I made in September 2025. Can you spot the test block on the finished surface? Here’s a picture that I was going to use in the February post but did not: We had quite a bit of snow in January-February time this year, and su...
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