Samuel Baguley

Static quilting website

10 August 2026

My sister started making quilts a couple of years ago, and recently I made a website for her to show them off.

screenshot of the website

In the process I discovered some features of Jekyll! Like how easy it is to link to prev/next blog pages:

{{ page.previous.title }}
{{ page.next.title }}

Because the site is mostly images, I wanted to get the files to a reasonable size without compromising much on quality. In the end I shrank every photo to have a width of 1200px, and did some light compression, with the following imagemagick command:

mogrify -strip -resize 1200 -interlace Plane -quality 85 *.jpg

All the quilt pages are automatically linked to from the home page, in reverse date order, which makes adding new quilts easy. A small, fun project!

star portals quilt