BluePip Designs

Cold, snow, and a solid school routine meant plenty of time for sewing this month!  I took full advantage and not only created two quilts from start-to-finish but also pulled out some old friends to work on.  Maybe there is hope for my WIP list in 2021! Quilt Tally WIP List at beginning of month: 14 WIP List at end of month: 14 Untouched in 2021: 8 Active QAL Projects: 1 Kid Projects: 2 Quilts Finished Giraffe Love (January 2021) Bernie's Mittens (January 2021) - I don't have a finished picture of the top yet, but here's a sneak peek at the flimsy and the fabulous long arm quilting that was done on it.  This is my newest pattern and will be released later this week! Quilts Started Nothing I didn't finish! Quilt Progress (6 WIPs touched) Rainbow Blossom - This block actually will go on the back of my Rainbow Blossom quilt as part of the quilt label, but I had all the fabric and just really wanted t...

 My first quilt of 2021 is here, and it was a fast, fun stash-buster quilt.  Meet Giraffe Love! You may have seen these giraffes before - they were one of the first pieces of fabric I bought when I started sewing back in 2010.  I believe the original intent was to make a pillowcase, which explains why I also had a half yard of the coordinating dots from the same fabric line.  I've used bits of both fabrics in different scrappy projects over the years, but this is their first time to really shine as a feature fabric!  The yellow fabric is from an old. unstarted quilting project and the grunge dots are from a half-yard bundle I pre-ordered when the line was first introduced. Not only is this quilt completely from stash, between the front and back I used up six complete large pieces of yardage!  That made a little room for some of the fabric that's been sitting in boxes because there wasn't any space left on the shelves for it. ...

It's a new year with lots of new projects on the horizon!  I started the year off by doing something I have been missing: paper piecing! This block will be included in my scrap memory quilt to commemorate the Snowflake quilt I finished on New Year's Eve!  The pattern can be found here if you'd like to make one - it's nice and easy and suitable for a beginner. I also did another one of my favorite things: reading through my quilting spreadsheeting to take notes and make plans for 2021.  My head is bursting with all the ideas I have even as my kids are asking me a million questions, mostly about food.  It looks like I have already committed myself to three deadlines in January and two in February - very optimistic!  The good news is, I'm excited about every single item I put on my list this morning, so now all I have to do is get them done! The first item on my to-do list is to finish my Plaidish quilt.  I last worked ...