Hubblebird's Quilt Blog

Not that I need to put my nose to the grindstone, as it seems I have managed to accumulate a lot of projects, and I’m loving it. W ith knitting and hand-sewing my evenings are completely taken up. For daytime sewing I came across Lynn Dykstra's blog, Klein Meisje Quilts , a few months ago, and I fell in love with her solids on prints series of quilts.   She is a prolific quilter and encourages readers to use her designs ‘at your pleasure’. I am particularly fond of the framed nine patch, and set about making my own using only fabrics from stash, plus any large scraps. Here are my blocks so far up on the design wall.   At the moment I am just throwing them up there as I make them.   My intention is to make the quilt 10 x 12 blocks which is a really big quilt.   I find piecing these very soothing. Around the time I read Lynn's blog I also read about Ruth’s framed nine patch ( Gigi’s Room ) and I’m really taken with the idea of doing a quilt-as-you-go using her technique o

My new grand daughter will have two cousins - Zoe and Eli.  I decided to make a quilt for each of them as a gift from the new baby. Here is Zoe's quilt which I have named Cupcakes.   I wanted to use only fabrics from my stash.  The multi-coloured strips came from a jelly roll that I bought years ago thinking that they would make good blending fabrics for my indigenous hexie quilt.  But they were far too loud and modern and I abandoned that idea.  The jelly roll has sat on the shelf for at least two years.  I never knew what to do with it. Then I saw the cupcake fabric in my local patchwork shop a few weeks ago.  I teamed it with the small scale 'girly' animal and rainbow fabric.  The border fabric is left over from baby MJ's cot quilt.  The backing is from stash and purchased at garage sale just before our Corona lockdown. I used a multi-coloured thread and the serpentine stitch on my Bernina to quilt this little quilt and I'm happy with the result. Next is Eli'

Well, you’d hope so after an absence of 4 months from the blog.   I am going to be a first-time grandma in November this year.   I’m so excited that my eldest son and his partner are going to have their first baby.   At this stage I know that it is a girl, but that’s all, as Mum and Dad are keeping potential names and the due date as surprises for the rest of us. Since hearing the news I’ve been busy knitting and sewing all sorts of goodies.   It has been many years since I knitted anything but I find it very soothing sitting in the lounge with the fire blazing and doing (what I call) mindless knitting – blankets, simple cardigans, even a dress or two for a little knitted bunny! I’ve made baby MJ (as she is known so far) 3 quilts.   I blogged about the snowball quilt here . Here is a little bassinette quilt that I made from scraps.   The centre panel is one that my daughter-in-law chose.   This little quilt has fabrics that I’ve used in a quilt for my Mum so it has extra special

My eldest son and his partner are having their first baby in November and I will be a first time grandma! I am so excited.   I had been knitting and sewing for weeks before the announcement and I will save those efforts for another blog.  Part of the anticipation sewing included the cot quilt.   Just before the bushfires I wrote about a cot quilt that I was inspired to make after seeing the Snoopy quilt by Allison at New Every Morning Patchwork and Quilting .   After the bushfires (in January) it took me a while to put the sewing room back together as much of it was all packed up and ready to go at a moment's notice, and interest had waned. But once everything was almost set to rights I was keen to finish the baby quilt. Of course, once I started to sew the snowball blocks together I quickly ran out of the two background fabrics that I was using.   I also couldn’t find a Snoopy panel, or indeed any panel that I liked, to include in the centre.  So, my quilt is radically dif