We were commissioned to make a quilt for a friend in Margate. In a similar vain to quilt 33, we decided to re-visit another, now faded, civic swimming pool, the Clifftonville Sands Tidal Pool. Created in the 1920s by John Henry Iles, this semi-circular in plan tidal pool could accommodate 1,000 bathers at any one time and was emptied and re-filled daily by the tide. At the landward side of the pool various bars, clubs and an amphitheatre were built. This once hugely popular spot is now more-or-less silted over and derelict. We have abstracted the built edge of the pool using a collection of smaller shirt elements such as pockets, collars and cuffs, and the line of the pool itself marks a change from faded pink to a faded cream shirt originally belonging to the Edinburgh architect, Michael Laird.

On the reverse of the quilt is one of the last of Annabelle’s fathers kimonos, unpicked and reconstructed to form the square – the blue patterned square was found in the unpicking of the kimono, sewn into the lining of the collar to strengthen it.