BluePip Designs

There's not much to say - this month definitely did not go the way I expected it to.  Instead of visiting with both my sister and my brother (two separate trips, we live in three different states), I got a lot of extra time with my kids and sewing machine.  It might be the first time that I'm not happy to get extra sewing time. Goal #1: Get my WIP List Under 10 WIP List at beginning of month: 17 WIP List at end of month: 16 Untouched in 2020: 8 Active QAL Projects: 3 Kid Projects: 2 Quilts Finished February's Grunge Dots and Sparkles Secret Sewing Project (started February 2020) - Reveal tomorrow! Quilts Started None!  Hard to believe I know! Quilt Progress (4 WIPs touched) 2018 Summer Sampler - aka the reason for the lack of blog posts this month.  I didn't even turn my iron on until halfway through the month because I got sucked into quilting, quilting, quilting!  Each block is quilted in a different pattern with at least two different...

For the past week I've been consumed by a single project.  You may recall that at the end of last month I basted my 2018 Summer Sampler and started quilting it .  I'm pleased to say that I now have 3 blocks completely quilted and 7 more partially quilted (out of 20 total). This has pretty much taken over all my sewing time.  I'm doing custom quilting and again focusing on a "less is more" principle.  I thought I'd do a few blocks and then bounce back to other projects, but instead I find myself quilting until I have a dozen or so ends to bury, then taking a break to bury them, repeat, repeat, repeat.  I'm enjoying trying different motifs - the ones that work well get used again and the ones that don't work as well get used once and then abandoned.  My goal for the month is to just keep trucking along with this and finish at least twelve blocks total. Another fun thing that's been going on is some independent kid sewing!  My kids found the b...