BluePip Designs

I'm linking up with Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs to share my Best of 2017 finishes! Since my blog is relatively new, I'm going to pick my five favorite finishes.  I'm currently quilting another quilt that is high on my list of favorites, but it's going to miss the cut-off for this linky party - please come back to check it out after the new year.  It features an Elizabeth Hartman pattern and it's just gorgeous. 1. Pineapple Mini Quilt .  I don't consider myself a super-trendy person, but my best friend and I were smitten by the pineapple trend of this summer! And what else to do with a trend than make her a birthday table topper out of it? 2. Range Quilt - This is a quilt I made for my brother and his girlfriend.  They are graphic designers living in Utah and I knew instantly that this was the perfect quilt pattern for them.  I subtitled it "Sunset Over Utah" and they told me that I got the colors exactly right.  I also...

I'm knee-deep in Christmas sewing (translated: mostly Christmas cross-stitching because I'm exhausted) but I did make the time to make block three of my Harry Potter Bookcase Quilt: And here it is slotted in with the other books on its shelf: Can you really blame me for not wanting to work on anything else?

When I was sewing the trees in my Fresh Cut Pines quilt , there were a lot of corners cut off and I decided to save them for a companion pillow that I was calling Fallen Branches in my head before I even knew what I was going to do with them! I had a vision of all the triangles lining up the same way, with a couple of red lines running through it.  But when it came time to put it together, my five-year-old was helping me randomize the greens and he insisted that a random layout was better.  Since both pieces are going to my mother-in-law and I knew she would get a kick out of something designed by him, I just went with it.  Here's the reference photo he took of the center section: And here's the final pillow we ended up with: The crazy layout really grew on me as I finished pulling this together.  I know Grandma will love it too!

Almost two years ago, my husband's aunt asked me if I had seen that there was a Harry Potter themed quilt along starting soon.  I hadn't, but I quickly looked it up, fell in love, and then realized my plate was a little too full at the time.  I stuck the idea on my "someday" list and mostly forgot about it. And then, as I was adding a new quilt to my quilt log last month, it hit me that I was approaching my 100th quilt.  I immediately decided it had to be something special and fun and just for me, so I pulled out my "someday" list and the Harry Potter quilt immediately caught my eye.  I've loved Harry Potter forever and my boys are very into him too: reading the books, watching the movies, playing the board game , and running around casting spells on each other.  Game over.  This is what I was making.  So I ordered some Moda Grunge in Sugar Cookies (Grunge is my current favorite for background fabrics) for the background and eagerly awaited its arr...