A message from Remodelista reader Sandy Suffield, A London art director and vintage collector, always gets our attention. Recently she surprised us with photos of her current pastime: collages inspired by antique American quilts that she creates solely from scrap paper.
Sandy matched a quilt to her steel-framed 1986 Ikea Moment sofa by Niels Gammelgaard.
Paper quilt 4. “The very first quilt came about while I was absentmindedly playing about making a card for a friend’s birthday.," Sandy says.
Only a few conform to traditional quilt patterns, such as tumbling blocks [shown here]. Most are simple stripes and brick-like shapes.”
Paper quilt 48. Sandy finds most of her frames at Goodwill shops and thrift stores: “the size of the frame dictates the size of the quilt.