About

Pemberton Qwilts founder Emily Campbell has produced a collection of exquisite hand quilts to complement the Connolly SS24 fashion collection. In collaboration with Connolly, she has developed a series of designs in the indigo spectrum — 10 linens and cottons, including Khadi and hand-dyed antique French damask — patchworked against a neutral field of broken white.

Pemberton has been making bright, modern, big and useful patchwork quilts since 2012. Emily was a pattern maker for the fashion designer Jean Muir and an accomplished dress and costume maker, before training at Yale School of Art as a graphic designer and working for several years at Pentagram in New York. Today, she combines her knowledge in patchwork quilts, bringing a graphic artist’s sense of visual tension and contrast to the geometry of traditional patchwork. She calls patchwork ‘a labour of love down the centuries, a geometry of the parlour, an ancient recycling system and one of the world’s oldest heating technologies.’

In 2023, Emily collaborated with Anya Hindmarch for London Fashion Week and with PINCH for London Craft Week. She was among the textile artists selected for the inaugural contemporary design interventions at David Parr House in Cambridge.