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Over the past thirty years since opening The Quilt Room in Dorking we have accumulated a collection of antique quilts from both sides of the Atlantic and we love everything about them. There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the quilts of bygone days, and having them on display in the shop has been a treat for staff and customers alike. A number of them are showing some wear and tear and their colours are a little faded but it does nothing to diminish their beauty – in fact it only enhances their appeal.

We have often considered using some of the patterns from these antique quilts to make modern-day versions and gradually the idea took hold. The fact that most of the quilts have a scrappy look to them made the use of a jelly roll perfect. But could we make these patterns from jelly rolls? You bet we could! We also have friends with gorgeous antique quilts and made the most of this when choosing patterns to make for this book.

Our antique quilts are all bed size and as we only wanted to use ‘just one jelly roll’ in each quilt we wondered how we would get around this. As it turned out it was a win-win situation as the array of different colours in each quilt comes from the jelly roll and the addition of extra background fabric allowed us to create bed size quilts, which we felt was important for our ‘today’s heirloom’ quilts.

The antique quilts were our inspiration and our modern-day quilts are as near as possible to the antique version, although we have allowed ourselves some artistic licence. Most of our antique quilts didn’t have labels so we cannot give the makers the credit due to them. We can only thank all those anonymous quilters of the past for the inspiration they have given us. We hope you will enjoy browsing through our selection of antique quilts and, more importantly, we hope you enjoy creating your very own heirloom quilts.