*Merlin* loved sleeping here

This quilt is hand and machine pieced and hand quilted. There is a different design of quilting in each of the squares - this is because, being my first attempt at quilting, I didn’t know what I was doing, and couldn’t make up my mind what pattern to use.  Each square has a double outlined circle containing different patterns of intersecting lines.

Given to Ann and Richard Smith.

It was exhibited at the National Patchwork Championships in 1996 at Ascot, England, where it won a green ribbon (3rd) for Novice quilts - and I went round with a huge smile on my face all day long - what a day!!

This photo always makes me smile.  This is Jim and my mum-in-law helping me to photograph the quilt for my entry into the National Patchwork Championships.  We tried all sorts of places for the photo - and they hardly complained at all!

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