Many Welsh quilts were made from square or rectangular pieces of material taken from books
of fabric samples. The unused charm squares purchased to piece Cofion combined with scraps from
Bendithion and other projects were used to recreate this look.
Although sized to fit the patchwork top, the quilting design deliberately avoided following its layout.
An inward-facing paisley was rotated by 90 degrees to form a cross and the centre filled with
concentric circles.
The cross was confined to a central rectangle of tramlines and the corners filled with the fan motif.
A paisley was mirror imaged around its base to create a paisley pair.
One paisley in the pair was then flipped vertically so that the outward spirals faced in opposite
directions. The resultant pair was then repeated to create the side borders.
The same border was then added to the top and bottom of the quilt.
As a counterpoint to the curved shapes of the paisleys, the border background was filled with parallel
lines.
The two remaining inner spaces were filled with borders created using the diamond shape of the
Welsh trail. The spaces were filled with echo lines.
The central rectangle was stretched widthwise to match this border for size and the background
filled with a square diamond pattern.
As the quilting design was governed by the final size of the patchwork, adjustments were necessary.
The side borders were made slightly wider and the paisleys in the top and bottom borders moved
further apart.