BluePip Designs

Today I am sharing my version of the latest block in the FQS Classic and Vintage series - the Broken Dishes block ! I used an unlabeled piece of Moda Grunge fabric (it's mostly brown with some pink in it) and Bounty fabric from April Rosenthal's Orchard collection .  It's amazing how changing the fabric can make the block look so much more modern!  The FQS tutorial walks you through making the block using Triangles on a Roll paper , which makes assembly quick and accurate. Thanks for stopping by!

Another sew-along is over and my Kinship quilt is done! This was a fun "free" quilt - it is entirely made up from scraps.  I mainly focused on using up random charm and mini charm squares, but any piece of fabric in my sewing room was fair game.  My kids had fun with this too - if they wandered in while I was choosing fabric I let them pull the fabric for me.  The back is by Carolyn Friedlander ; it was purchased for my Paper Round quilt and then rejected for being too dark, but I love how it looks with this one.  And for once I went easy on myself and just did a giant meander!  Fast and easy and perfect for a quilt that has so much going on. Scrappy quilts are some of my favorite quilts to make, and this one was done entirely without a plan. I just sewed each block depending on my mood.  I then immediately sewed it into its row.  Every ten days I got to give a little cheer and then sew the finished row to the rest of the time.  T...

On the menu today is another finished quilt!  The Sweet Treat quilt was pieced entirely from scraps in my sewing room - even the background is a piece of yardage bought for a different pattern that I decided not to make. As I was finishing up the top of my quilt, the designers of  Ruby Star Society were giving sneak peeks of their inaugural collections.  I decided it was worth waiting for two of the new prints that Melody Miller was releasing -  this  ice cream print  for the back and  Spark fabric in Lipstick  for my binding.  That almost-solid with just a pop of interest is exactly what I am into right now. By the time I had the backing in hand, I had a whole pile of tops ready or almost ready for quilting so I decided to splurge and send it out to be quilted.  These fans just remind me of ice cream swirls! You can get this pattern from Lindsey at Pen and Paper Designs  - I tweaked it a little bit by addin...

I finally got around to that photo shoot I promised you at the end of August!  In my defense, I decided that the print stripes were too wide to go unquilted, so the whole thing went back down to the sewing room for a little extra TLC. All I did was echo the print on the pattern - you can get a good idea of what it looks like by looking at the back. Sidenote: doesn't that teal binding look fantastic with both the front and the back of the quilt?  These Quantum fabrics are so beautiful and exactly my style! I really enjoyed sewing these curves and it looks so striking despite only needing eight blocks and a giant strip block.  I definitely spent more time quilting than piecing!  This pattern can be found in  Issue 24 of Make Modern magazine   (affiliate link). Thanks for reading!

Happy Thursday!  My goal this month is simple: finish up my Kinship sampler !  Today is day 95 out of 100, which means I only have five more blocks to go! I've been sewing them together as I made them, which means this just needs to get basted, quilted, and bound!  I'm proud of myself for sticking with the sampler the whole way through, but want it to be completely finished, unlike the piles of blocks left over from the 2018 Summer Sampler and 100 Days 100 Blocks 2018 - both have all the blocks done yet are still waiting for me to get around to the final assembly stage. I'm linking up my goal with Elm Street Quilts .