Lost Gardens of Heligan. Coming Soon! Expected delivery March, 2026
Lost Gardens of Heligan is my twelfth fabric collection, and my eighth line with Henry Glass fabrics.
A few years ago, I met Ingrid at a sewing group and we connected instantly. We have since become close friends, sharing our passion for all things quilting, especially a mutual love of early 19th century antique quilts and reproduction fabrics.
Ingrid is one of the few people I share my ideas and artwork with when I’m designing a new fabric line or quilt. When designing this line, I wanted to acknowledge our special friendship and how much I appreciate Ingrid’s input, including her willingness to allow me to reproduce some of her antique prints. Ingrid’s family name, on her Father’s side, is St Austell-Moyle which is in Cornwell, England. When Ingrid visited one day we googled her family name, and after heading down the rabbit warren that google lead us, we stumbled upon the Lost Gardens of Heligan. A perfect and fitting name for this fabric collection!
Lost Gardens of Heligan is a 23 SKU line featuring 17 different prints, the final being an amazing 108" wide back version of an earlier print of mine from Bannard Hills; the Wholecloth Abstract. The main print in the line in a stunning pillar print in both the document colour of caramel and a light teal. In the same colours is the secondary print which is a beautiful floral vine. These fabrics can all be used in blocks or as setting triangles, squares and borders. For lovers of Broderie Perse they can be cut further into individual flowers and then rearranged to create an amazing new design for appliqué and stitched onto one of the matching background fabrics within the line.
The large border in this collection is exquisite!! Originally beautiful in the 1830s as a red and white toile, this design has been totally enhanced with colour. It consists of 2 separate borders which can either be used as a whole, wider border or cut into strips and used as 2 individual borders depending on the project. The flowers and leaves in this print can be for Broderie Perse. The alternate stripe within the border consists of an large interlocking two-tone swirl down the fabric length. This is a really beautiful and unusual print that I cannot wait to include in my future quilts.
Lost Gardens of Heligan also includes ‘my must’ have’ serpentine prints that I include in all my lines. There are three serpentine designs in this collection. A two tone blue stripe offers 2 different repeating serpentine borders across the width of the fabric which greatly increases the usability and versatility of the print. A very subtle cream serpentine makes a beautiful background print that can also be used behind a Broderie Perse to mimic a soft wallpaper design. The third serpentine is in tones of light pink through to burgundy. Another beauty! Serpentine stripes make great narrow borders but also cut up beautifully to create movement within a quilt. The amazing effects that can be obtained from fussy cutting these prints are limited only by your imagination and are fun to create.
Apart from the prints already mentioned, the collection also includes a diagonal serpentine stripe, a gorgeous paisley, a floral geometric, tossed garlands, and others in colours of Prussian blue, teal, pink, aubergine, red and cream.
Lost Gardens of Heligan is a classic reproduction collection inspired by fabrics from that era. I cannot wait to use it in my quilts.
Thanks Ingrid, for letting me bounce ideas off you, diligently proofreading my patterns, for our stitching days full of fun and madness, but most of all for your friendship.
