Fair and square, that's all we ask. We ask that we are treated with honesty and respect and that equality is given to us fairly. Over 100...

Ok, so we only have two blocks left and coming clean these were a bit of an after thought. I have never been great at my times tables and...

Scrappy Susannah named after Susan B. Anthony who played a pivotal role in the American Suffrage movement. What a cool woman, not only...

Very similar to a log cabin pattern, this block is made out of lots of strips of fabric. I love the colours of this block and...

I think this is one of my favourite blocks in the quilt, partly because of the fussy cutting but also because of the colours. I was on my...

Well we couldn't have a suffragette quilt without paying homage to the always excellent Disney song Sister Suffragette. Yes it has...

Mary Wollstonecraft to me is the mother of the feminist movement in the UK. Born in 1759 she was a English writer, philosopher, and...

I just adore all of these fabrics! The cream fabric comes from the Ruby Star Society, the turquoise is a William Morris print and the...

By this time in the quilt I really understood about how cutting the triangles a certain way means that the pattern all goes in the same...

Memory, I mean that is what this quilt is all about, the memory of the suffragettes. I love the colours in this block, the thistle...

Ooh I love a fussy cut! I included this block "hands of friendship" for the bonds that the suffragettes made over their time in the fight...

Whoops it's been a bit of a while since I last did a post. The reason is that whilst I have been creating this quilt in lockdown, I have...

I really love the colours in this block. I like the idea that Grandmother's were cross at the lack of their right to vote. This is all...

In London's Parliament Square there is a statue of Millicent Fawcett, the suffragist. I have been lucky enough to visit Parliament for my...

Wild rose and square (or quiet defiance) is named after a woman in the book ladies can't climb ladders. The tricky thing here is that I...

Hope takes courage to sustain. Since starting my quilt and this blog I have struggled with hope. As I said in my first post, I lost my...

Hand in hand we walk together, fight together, raise our voices together. This is another block that I found on the internet and then had...

Lets talk about someone pretty amazing, my mum (who this block is named for as she is called Mrs Thomas). The best mums raise feminists...

Lets talk about someone special, Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) born a slave and over her life rescued about 70 people from slavery. At the...

Drifting from strong English women to the strong women of the American civil war we meet Barbara Fritchie, a strong woman who tried to...