NIMBLE fingered Mary Watson from Weymouth has stitched her way to £1,000 for a national charity.

She created two double quilts with a heart design for the Cardiomyopathy Association.

Each fetched £500, but a Windsor chair made by her husband Michael failed to sell in the eBay auction.

A family member has it now and has made a donation to the Cardiomyopathy Association.

Keen woodworker Mr Watson, who is a retired GP, organises a support group for people with cardiomyopathy and their families.

He said: “We are very pleased with the results of the eBay auction for the Cardiomyopathy Association and the sale of the quilts raised £500 each.”

He added: “The quilts were both made by my wife Mary, who is a member of the Hardy Quilters group, while attending quilting courses at Brewers Quay.

“The single heart quilt took a total of six months to make, and the multiple hearts quilt took over three months.”

Mr Watson has cardiomyopathy – a heart muscle disease – and runs the Wessex Cardiomyopathy Support Group.

It provides support for patients and their families.

His chair and Mrs Watson’s quilts were among 40 lots, including celebrity memorabilia, in the national auction to celebrate the charity’s 20th birthday. It has raised £5,200, with most items going to private buyers in this country.

The item attracting the highest bid was a day on the set of ITV’s Marple, which went for £730.

Lunch with talkSPORT’s Mike Parry and Andy Townsend went for £620.

Footballer Theo Walcott’s signed boots went for £343 and an England rubgy shirt went for £310.

A signed Jonny Wilkinson rugby ball went for £235.

Mr Watson’s Windsor chair is made of Dorset Ash from Bulbarrow Hill and, for the seat, a single piece of Dutch elm felled in the seventies before Dutch elm disease ravaged the population.

Mr Watson said that the chair is unusual in that it has a crinoline – a kind of hoop underneath.