To make the quilt

1. Cut a 120cm square from cotton sheeting and put to one side to back the quilt with. Create a 29cm square from the remainder of the fabric. Draw the horse head from the pattern onto the flat side of the iron-on quilt wadding and cut out. Pin and press the wadding onto the centre of a 25cm square of deep pink cotton.

2. Trim around the motif leaving a 1cm border. Clip curves and corners, before folding the raw edges over and tacking. Pin the motif to the centre of the white sheeting. Place in a large embroidery frame and sew down with a small oversew stitch. Add detail to the horse’s face with three strands of darker embroidery thread.

3. From fabric cut the following: four, 15cm squares of the bold pattern horse print; 12, 8cm squares of smaller print; four, 8cm squares of the third pattern; four 8cm squares of each of the four pink prints. Pair up a small horse square with a pink square and sew right sides together on one edge with a 5mm seam allowance. Do the same with the remaining small squares and press.

4. Layout the squares around the central horse head motif, placing a large square in the centre of each sides and adding the pairs of smaller squares on either side. Sew the adjacent pairs of squares next to each larger square. Stitch the panels on either side of the horse head motif to the white sheeting and press. Add the remaining pairs of squares to either side of the un-stitched panels before sewing to the remaining edges of the horse head motif, taking care to line up the seams with the existing panels.

5. Tear two, 8cm x 130cm, strips from the leftover white sheeting. Cut each strip into two pieces, one measuring 58cm and the other 72cm. Sew the shorter strips to either side of the patchwork panel and press out before adding the longer strips to the top and bottom making an overlapped border. Your patchwork panel should now measure 72cm square.