Transatlantic Community Quilt 2025

2025 is the fifth anniversary of our Transatlantic Community Quilt project!

In 2019, Suzanne and I both contributed blocks for the Love & Kisses quilt in Jenni Smith’s Quilting with Liberty Fabrics book. Then, during lockdown, we came up with the idea of creating a quilt with blocks from the US and UK, uniting quilters in their love of Liberty fabrics and providing some well-needed community during the isolation of the pandemic.

Now, to celebrate our fifth anniversary and to share in the celebration of Liberty's 150th anniversary, we have decided to make not one…not two… but three Love & Kisses Community quilts!

Many of you will have the book but for those who don’t, the good news is that the Love & Kisses design has been made available as a pattern to purchase separately - thank you Lucky Spool, Jenni and Kay.

The three quilts will be displayed at QuiltCon Raleigh 2026 and Festival of Quilts 2026 before being donated to Alice's SOS quilt charity.

Each quilt will have a colour theme:
1 – Blue – Leisa's signature colour palette of all the Liberty blues.
2 – Jewel – rich plum and teal colours are Suzanne's signature colour palette.
3 – Multi – any colour combination of your choice!

Once you have signed up, we will send you a Fat Eighth of Liberty Lasenby fabric for the background. Then you have to make the tricky decision as to which two fabrics you will choose from your stash to make the Love & Kisses block, using Liberty Tana Lawn® and / or Lasenby quilting cotton.

The sign-up fee covers our cost of the background fabric, quilting the finished quilts and entry fees to the Festival of Quilts. You will have a choice of postage options at checkout, based on weight and where you are in the world.

There are two options for when you sign up: one for those who have the book and another for those who require the pattern.

You can make the block traditionally pieced or foundation paper pieced (FPP). Please make sure that if you use the FPP templates, your printer settings are set at 100% scale. There is a 1" test square on the pattern to double check your printing scale.
 
13 products