Lucy Boston, famed for her Green Knowe children's books and her wonderful garden full of old roses at her Norman manor house, was less well known for her beautiful and original patchworks.  But since her death in 1990, these patchworks have become a legend in their own right.

As an artist in all she did, Lucy Boston made the patchworks during the winter months when she could not spend so many hours in the garden. Each one is entirely original, with 20 stitches to the inch even when she was over 90 years old.  Her inspriation came from many sources.  Diana Boston describes each patchwork with extracts from Lucy's letters and writings at the time she made them.  The patchworks are photographed whole and many details are shown too, in this carefully and lovingly compiled book, which makes a stuning record in print of a rare historical colletion of textile art.

Photogrpahs by Julia Hedgecoe.

ISBN 9780952323372