Hubblebird's Quilt Blog

Amongst my New Year’s resolutions is to get back to quilting after a long break during which some horrible things happened, and some wonderful things happened.    There is a lot on my ‘to do’ list for 2018, including making an EPP hexagon quilt.    One of my favourite bloggers and quilters (Amanda Jean Nyberg @ Crazy Mom Quilts) has decided to recreate an antique hexagon quilt. You can read about her Mark Twain quilt here . She purchased the antique quilt that she is reproducing while on a visit to Hannibal, Missouri, which is the birthplace of Mark Twain.   Coincidentally, I am re-reading (for the umpteenth time, but I can't help it because it is so good) Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent, Travels in Small Town America.  I won't repeat what Bill wrote about Hannibal way back in 1989 suffice to say that Amanda and her family seem to have had a much better experience! Anyhoo,I decided to follow Amanda's hexie journey and make an Aust...

My blog?  I had one a couple of years ago, and when I decided to revive it for 2018 (and, incidentally, revive quilting and craft things again) I could find it, but it proved impossible to get into it and write a new post!   Two days and several Google searches later, I gave up, so here I am with a new blog.  I will be writing about my quilts, and I'm working on my first English Paper Piecing Hexie quilt now.  More about that in the next blog.  It's slow going but I am enjoying it.   In other news ... My husband decided that he wanted to buy us both a jet ski, and today we went on our second voyage. We had our maiden voyage two days ago out on the ocean.  Fantastic fun but today we decided to take it a bit easier and travel up a local waterway.  It was a hot 31 degree Celcius day, and I have to find some way of keeping a hat on at 50kph because I'm both sunburnt and weary after four hours on the water.  Forgot all ab...