For Australian quilt designer and author Jen Kingwell, quilts and food symbolise comfort. This book, containing 8 delicious recipes and 12 quilt and cushion patterns, was a decade-long vision, and it shows within the pages. It’s a considered and well-executed book, with a selection of modern traditional quilt projects, each of them beautifully photographed alongside some mouth-watering recipes to bake. Jen’s patterns are for a more confident beginner quilter to experienced quilter. Various techniques are covered, including template-cut and hand-pieced quilts, as well as rotary-cut and machine-pieced items. Each project is made with a scrappy and eclectic palette of fabrics, typical of Jen Kingwell’s style. It is a slightly more expensive book, but as a bound hardcover book the cost is worth it. It would look perfect on a coffee table or bookshelf, and is a real visual treat, as well as offering some delicious-sounding recipes (who doesn’t enjoy a plate of freshly baked biscuits?).