Lynda in Wonderland

25 April 2025

Night Sky

"Night Sky" is a Thimble Blossoms design and is made with one of my favourite blocks, Sawtooth Stars - loads of stars, stars within stars. I used Thimble Blossoms' "Nantucket Summer" fabrics for the quilt top and binding and one of her "Shoreline" fabrics for the backing.

I made the quilt to the pattern and I'm now wishing I'd added another column to the width so it would sit better on a queen bed.

Karen used "Clamshells" and it looks wonderful - doesn't overwhelm the stars.

The backing fabric is lovely - feels like a polished cotton/sateen.

Back to sewing up some more Stegosauruses this afternoon.

Tiny Nine Patch Quilt

The design is by Repro Quilt Lover (@reproquiltlover on Instagram) and she kindly uploaded the instructions as a sew-along. I didn't participate but made the quilt in my own time. I loved making this quilt. Once I started I couldn't stop till it was finished. My nine patches finish at 3", much larger than the instructions.

This container has over 1,000 little squares for the borders. I wasn't sure how many I'd need.

Ended up with 31 left over after making the first border then the chequerboard.

I asked Karen to use "Orange Peel" and the texture is wonderful.

The backing is the yellow "Shine On" mums fabric from Bonnie and Camille and the finding is from their "Early Bird" range.

Vinnie and Daisy are going somewhere special tomorrow

This is Vinnie at his first Wiggles show - I wonder if Daisy will be as excited.

23 April 2025

Cutting Out

Lots of cutting out last week.

First up I cut up the remains of my "Lighthearted" fat quarter bundle into 2-1/2" squares

then went through my pink, red, aqua and white Bonnie and Camille scrap bags and cut more 2-1/2" squares. I have enough to make Thimble Blossoms' "Takes the Cake". The dimensions will be a little different as the original uses 2" cut squares.

Then I cut up lots of the Thimble Blossoms' "Shoreline" and "Nantucket Summer" fat quarter bundles leftovers to make another "Edelweiss" quilt, this time with a navy Moda Bella Solid background.

I think I'm finally up-to-date.

Astra Quilt

"Astra" is a quilt designed by Zahmco and a customer from USA asked me to make it for her. The colour-scheme is based on a quilt made by one of the pattern testers. It's a whopper! 90" wide x 108" long.

Karen quilted it with grey thread using "Square Dance" design - it looks great.

My customer chose the backing from Australian Widebacks and Karen said it was great to work with.

The quilt arrived at its new home on Monday and the client is extremely happy with it.

I have cut out another "Astra" quilt (a smaller version) to make later in the year for my brother for Christmas. All those fabrics were in my stash. This one has a navy background.

In March I went through all my Figtree scrap fabrics and cut out strips to make a Figtree Tiny Nine Patch quilt.

I had enough of the Figtree Favourites light tan pindot on ivory for the nine patches and the Figtree "Stitched" fabric for the alternate squares and borders.

The plan was to make this later in the year but, once I started, I couldn't stop.

At the start of April I cut out some blocks for Vinnie's "Dinosaur" quilt designed by Elizabeth Hartman. This will be my second full-size version of this quilt and I'll have plenty left over to make the smaller size.

I'm using the Robots kit fabrics because Vinnie liked the Dinosaurs rather than Robots.

There is a lot of prep-work involved in Elizabeth Hartman's quilts but once the cutting out is done the patterns are so easy to follow and the blocks go together like a dream.

Next up are the Stegosauruses

Christmas 2024 Sewing

Lots of sewing last November/December.

Had a good sort through my backing offcuts and dressmaking fabrics to make a bunch of clothes for Daisy for a Christmas present. They were in a variety of sizes using patterns I had sewn for my own children.