Compose a quilt

1. Press each of the fat quarters of fabric, aside from one of plain pink cotton. Fold the pressed pieces in half, twice in the same direction. Working on a cutting mat, use a patchwork ruler and rotary cutter to slice the fabrics – excluding the unpressed pink cotton – into 7cm wide strips.

2. Stack the strips, excluding those of plain pink cotton and one print design. Arrange the remaining pieces into a pleasing order. Cut two 7cm squares from strips of the first and second designs. Stitch the two pieces together along one edge with a 5mm seam allowance. Fingerpress the two pieces.

3. Lay a strip of the third patterned fabric over the resulting rectangle with right sides together, ensuring they line up along the top. Stitch down the long right-hand edge, trim the strips to the same length at the bottom and open out into a square, finger pressing along the seam.

4. Take a strip of the fourth fabric design and place this across the top of the square, lining up the left side. Sew along the top edge, trim any