BluePip Designs

My final recap post of 2022!  December is traditionally a slow sewing month for me, and this year was no different.  I have no regrets, except for maybe the quantity of homemade cookies that I ate!  I did make good progress on three different projects and I'm looking forward to spending more time in my sewing room during January. Quilt Tally WIP List at beginning of month: 11 WIP List at end of month: 11 Untouched in 2022: 1 Active QAL Projects: 1 Quilts Finished None. Quilts Started None! Quilt Progress (4 WIPs touched) Postage Stamp Quilt - December is the month when my year-long personal project was supposed to end and I am very close - only seven blocks to go!  Everyone knows that the year doesn't really end until winter break is over so I'm giving myself two bonus days to finish this "in 2022". Rainbow Blossom Quilt - The last two blocks for this quilt (a pink seashell and the wo...

Another fun quilting year is over!  Almost all of my sewing this year was from quilt-alongs old and new or my own patterns.  My list of finishes is smaller due to real life being bigger, but I did so something crafty every day this year (quilting, cross-stitching, baking, and/or drawing), even if it was only for five minutes on the couch at the end of the night. 2022 Goal Recap 1. Be mindful in what I start.  I'm giving myself a passing grade on this one!  Only three of the quilts I started this year aren't done and all of them are in good shape to be finished quickly.  Two should be done in January and the third is a monthly quilt-along that's up-to-date! 2. Three pattern releases.  A big fail!  I only released one pattern ( Meeple ) and it was more of a niche personal project (limited audience appeal).  On the plus side, I love the quilts and projects I've made with it! 3. Harry Potter Quilt of Doom .  I started off strong o...

I'm a sucker for anything "old" - I loved hanging out at our local museum when I was a kid and I drag my kids to our local history museums as often as they'll let me.  I recently listened to a podcast about harvesting ice in the 1880s and none of it was new to me because I watched the ice harvesting video (with actual footage!) so many times as a kid that I practically had it memorized.  Needless to say, when Lindsay at Pen+Paper Patterns released her Just My Type pattern , I knew instantly that I was going to make it! All of the letters are traditionally pieced, and the background of each is a different low-volume print, alternating between black and white and colorful.  The "j" looks overwhelmingly red in this photo, but it's more subtle in person.  I really wanted to make the typewriter a fun aqua color, but I also didn't want it to steal the show, so a light gray it is.  The background is a stashed out-of-print Tula Pink fabric (Seed Stitch) tha...