Six more squares for my suffolk puff coverlet are finished. These are the last of the green squares. I have two light blue squares to finish today to keep on schedule but that shouldn't be a problem as it's currently only 8:34 am so I have the whole day to get them done.

I took some time off working on my book yesterday to check out what google had to say about "suffolk puffs" and found the Australian National Quilt Registry's website, which has an utterly amazing section on suffolk puff quilts. If you think sewing a coverlet with 1,600 puffs is a big job, check out some of these!

• Gillian Sullivan's Quilt with over 9,000 puffs the size of a 20 cent piece!


• A garage sale find with over 6,000 puffs


• Christina Hallett's Quilt with 10,000 puffs. I really love the flower border on this one.

Another thing that struck me as really interesting is the white suffolk puff quilts in the registry. I found them quite surprising as the thought of making hundreds of suffolk puffs in plain white would definitely be a project stopper for me, but they really look amazing with white fancy edgings and occasional needle lace inserts in the little diamonds formed between the puffs like this pair of pillow shams from the Powerhouse Museum collection

I'm thinking of making some cushion covers in a similar style. No frills around the edges though as I'm just not a frilly kind of person. And they'd be blue and made from fabric oddments instead of one type of fabric.