Home Furnishing

If your cats are anything like mine, they'll curl up on the jumper you've left on a chair and cover it with cat hairs. These charming little hand-made cat quilts are the decorative solution - lay them on the chair, the end of the bed or a sunny corner of the carpet and encourage your furry friend to curl up there.

Give your kitchen and dining room a touch of individuality and style with hand-made dishes. Andrew Appleby has been producing elegant pottery in the parish of Harray for many years and now describes himself as the real Harray Potter.

I was lucky enough to be given quite a few of his dishes as wedding presents in the seventies and can vouch for their durability and usefulness.

These designs are all from the Pentland Sky range and have the same blue-green glaze. Variations in the colour of the images are due to the changing light.

If you are looking for stylish and unusual cushions to grace your sofa, you are spoilt for choice here. Tate and Style and Digitata, both based at the old Academy in Stromness, produce a range of colourful designs to complement any colour scheme.

The bright woollen covers are made by Tate and Style. Ingrid Tait's eye-catching designs in knitwear and soft furnishing are sold in Liberty and Saks 5th Avenue but you can have them delivered right to your door. Sarah Johnstone of Digitata reproduces the beauty of nature in her hand-printed linen cushion covers, whose elegant lines and neutral colours will add an extra touch of style to your sitting-room.

All the animal skins are hand-tanned in Sanday, from animals reared in Orkney.