Websterquilt: Hobbs Batting

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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Island Batik Ambassador's It's All Up To You Challenge

This month the Island Batik Ambassadors were allowed to choose what they wanted to do for a challenge. I was in the mood to paper piece. I wanted to do something intricate so I started playing in Electric Quilt and this is what I came up with. Originally I was only going to do the outer ring, but the blank center called for more.

I started with a beautiful pile of salmon, red, and purple batiks leftover from another project. I knew I wanted to play more with that color palate. I added black for contrast. Once I'd pieced the first section I auditioned background fabrics. I decided on the lightest one you see at the bottom.

Outer ring complete! I was so excited. Now to design a center because putting one fabric in there was going to look like a hole.

A fully designed center. Those itty bitty pieces in the very middle are less than 1/4" wide! I decided to use 1/8" seam allowances and my Aurifil thread and Schmetz Microtex needles were up to the task. The only regret is that I sewed it all in cream instead of black and you can see the stitching.....but that's what a black sharpie is for.

All assembled and read to add to the background.

Now to figure out how to quilt it! I use a large piece of plexiglass and a dry erase marker. This one doesn't work.

I love feathers, but they don't fit this design.

I love this design idea! Now to mark it and layer it with my favorite Hobbs 80/20 cotton/poly batting.

Starting to stitch. I decided to use a very dark gray instead of black for the sake of my eyes. Black on black is very hard to quilt. Plus I like that you can see the stitching better.

Project complete! I love this one.

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Friday, July 11, 2025

Island Batik Ambassador 2025 Box #2 Reveal!

Each year Island Batik (now a part of Lumin Fabrics) sends their ambassadors two boxes of amazing fabric and products. This latest (my 20th?! ever) was no exception!

These are two sets of foundations fabrics. Foundations are fabrics that are available all the time from Island Batik and are not part of specific collections. They have solids, batik solids, and batik prints.

This 10" stack is called Colorburst. It's a beautiful rainbow. I also received two yards of red and cream to go with it. I'm already thinking of what rainbowy project I could make.

I was really excited to find this Naturally Neutral strip set in my box! It's going to be a great background for a scrappy quilt.

This is 4 yards of black, white, and gray solids. It's fabulous for backgrounds for quilts. It doesn't fray like traditional cottons can and is a pleasure to work with.

I also received 6 yards of this fun cream fabric. I think it would make a great background for a modern quilt.

This 10" stack of playful purples is also so pretty. I'm thinking it might make a good lone star. I also received 2 yards of cream and purple to go with it.

You can see I've already opened and started playing with this half-yard bundle of fabric. It's the fabric for my September project. Gorgeous.

I also received 4 spools of Aurifil thread to go with this collection. So beautiful! I'm already thinking about exactly what I want to make.

These three fabrics are for making a By Annie bag! I am in love with the middle red flower fabric. SO SO pretty.

These are Stash Builder Rolls! They are 5" strips of a whole variety of fabrics. Each set has 20 fabrics. I use them all the time to add more range to quilts.

I'm a Hobbs Batting girl and was so excited to find these two batts in my box. The first one is Cotton Wool Blend. It's fabulous for putting behind machine applique quilts. The other is Supreme Cotton which is thicker than normal cotton and great to work with.

These three batts are polydown (I use this in warm quilts), 80/20 blend (my favorite ever) and fusible batting (great for when you don't want to baste!). I'm excited to use them in my projects.

Here's a video telling you even more about what was in my box!

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Island Batik Ambassador's Funky Friends Factory Challenge

This month the Island Batik Ambassadors were challenged to make some fun stuffed animals from Funky Friends Factory. I have made a few of their patterns before and they are always fun and I always learn a lot. This year I chose to make Chrissy Camel. My youngest son loves stuffed animals and I knew the camel would end up in his collection so I asked him which color he wanted the camel to be and he decided on purple.

This pattern had a lot of pieces, but once the sewing started it with my favorite Schmetz Microtex Needles he went together quickly. I started by ironing my fabric with my Oliso iron. It sure does a great job steaming out wrinkles. There are pictures of what to do on the Funky Friends Factory website which were really helpful! I of course sewed him together with my favorite Aurifil thread.

Putting the bottom hoof on. It was a lot of pins, but went together more easily than I expected. I stuffed him with Hobbs polyfil and it worked wonderfully. I'm always surprised how much stuffing actually goes inside a stuffed animal!

I couldn't find my box of embroidery floss to make his tail. However, I have a ton of rick rack and happened to have the perfect purple. It's funny because I bought this rick rack on the way back from Paducah and it was so old it only cost 38 cents a yard!

My flowers are in full bloom in my yard so I decided it was the perfect place to photograph my camel which my son has dubbed Caramello. He started out by checking out some salvia, but it wasn't purple enough for him.

Next up were the iris. Two beautiful purples to choose from.

And finally into my son's arms. He sure likes him! It made all the effort worth it.

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Island Batik Ambassador's Irish Chain Blog Hop with Accuquilt

This month the Island Batik Ambassadors received the new Irish Chain Die from Accuquilt. Irish chain is a very traditional pattern and always fun to make and the Accuquilt die makes it super easy to cut out. It was fun to take a picture of it with all my spring bulbs in bloom!

For this blog hop I received the beautiful Jabberwocky Collection. These patterns are fun and modern and were a blast to play with. I pieced my quilt using my favorite cream Aurifil thread and pressed flat with my Oliso iron.

I had fun quilting my project using my favorite Hobbs 80/20 Cotton/Poly batting and Schmetz Microtex needles. I did a bunch of continuous curve over the entire surface.

I used the orange - purple plus the white print for the x's in my Irish Chain. I then used the yellow-blue for the backgrounds. I love how the rainbow came out and I think the blue binding sets it off nicely.