About Me & Contact

About me

It all started when…

A friend asked if I wanted to join her at a couple of half-day classes at our local quilt shop in an effort to help get her going on a long-time WIP. After shrugging and saying “why not?”, I found myself stepping into a world of colourful fabrics and modern designs that totally changed my perception of what quilting could be.

Wind forward a few months and I was hooked. Armed with a shiny new sewing machine and a bucket load of that “why not?” spirit, I’d quilted a giant disappearing nine patch for my bed, designed and made Ashley’s Star Quilt and was just bursting with ideas for more. A year later my Mountain Reflections quilt was hanging in the Festival of Quilts, I had a pattern accepted for publication in Make Modern Magazine, and Cait Lisle Designs was born.

I find inspiration everywhere I look, from sweet wrappers to floor tiles and even shadows! I love playing with traditional piecing techniques to give them a fresh modern twist and creating patterns that everyone from beginners to life-long quilters can enjoy making.

Oh, and my friend still hasn’t finished her WIP!

Fun facts about me

  • My favourite colour is a rainbow - I can’t choose!

  • I’m a cat-mummy to two eternal kittens, Lyra and Aurora

  • The natural world is a big part of my life - I love forests and mountains and try to get to them whenever I can

  • My pronouns are she/her

  • Book

    Magazines

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, March 2025 - Scrappy Rainbow

    • Make Modern Magazine, November 2024 - Flower Garden

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, November 2024 - Crackers

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, August 2024 - Twisted Stars

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, June 2024 - Rising Sun

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, December 2023 - Simply Scrappy

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, June 2023 - Rainbow Pride (pattern available for purchase)

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, May 2023 - Interlocking Lines (pattern available for purchase)

    • Curated Quilts, Abstract Issue April 2023 - Threads That Bind (buy a copy here)

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, December 2022 - Flower Patch

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, November 2022 - Winter Warmer

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, June 2022 - Press Play

    • Make Modern Magazine, May 2022 - Rainbow Pin Pennant (pattern available for purchase)

    • QuiltCon Magazine, February 2022 - Shockwave (pattern available for purchase)

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, January 2022 - Morning Harvest

    • Make Modern Magazine, January 2022 - Spring Weather (pattern available for purchase)

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, November 2021 - Pick and Mix (pattern available for purchase)

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, September 2021 - Hazy Lazy Days (pattern available for purchase)

    • Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, May 2021 - New Directions (pattern available for purchase)

    • QuiltCon Together Magazine, February 2021 - Summer Dance (pattern available for purchase)

    • Make Modern Magazine, January 2020 - Triangle Dreams (pattern available for purchase)

  • Solo exhibition

    Grosvenor Quilt Shows touring gallery of 20 of my original quilts - Adventures in Modern Quilting

    • Springfields Quilt Show May 2024

    • Kempton Park Quilt Show June 2024

    • Great Yorkshire Quilt Show August 2024

    • Newcastle Quilt Show October 2024

    • Malvern Autumn Quilt Show October 2024

    • Duxford Autumn Quilt Festival November 2024

    Competitions

    Gallery show

    • Babylon Summer Exhibition, August 2020 - Searching in the Night

  • I regularly teach at a variety of local quilt shops, retreats and trade shows, including:

    • Festival of Quilts // Birmingham 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024

    • Knitting & Stitch Show // Alexandra Palace 2021, 2022 and 2024

    • Stitch Festival // London 2022

    • Backstitch // Cambridgeshire

    • Foxes’ Retreat // Ashbourne

    • Escape & Create UK // St Ives, Cambridgeshire

    • Sew Much to Do // Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

  • Modern Quilt Guild (MQG) Member, Cambridgeshire UK (2022-present)

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All patterns are available for print and digital wholesale orders.