BluePip Designs

After sewing all day, including in some small gaps between running kids to events (10 minutes is long enough to pin a long seam or do a little ironing.  Normally not worth it to me, but when I'm on deadline every little bit helps!) my Kinship top is done! A basement photo after dark isn't the best indicator of the true colors, but I did take this one earlier today in natural light to show my mother-in-law the super skinny sashing I used between my rows - it finishes at only half an inch!  I don't think I've ever used such a tiny sashing on a big quilt before, but I wanted to keep the green as an accent, not a feature. Cheers to my last-minute finish of  my monthly goal for February !  The pattern is called Kinship and it was used in the 100 Days 100 Blocks quilt-along hosted by Gnome Angel in 2022 .  The layout is my own and I'll talk more about it when the quilt is completely finished.  For now, I'm linking up my successful finish at Elm Street Quilts !

You'd never know February was a short month from the amount of sewing that I got done.  I finished so many different things and I can't share them with you yet - should be a busy March on the blog! Add in a pattern release and I'll be on here sharing plenty! Quilt Tally WIP List at beginning of month: 12 WIP List at end of month: 11 Untouched in 2023: 4 Active QAL Projects: 2 Quilts Finished Postage Stamp Quilt (January 2022) Bright Day (January 2023)  Dino Loop (February 2023) Quilts Started Under the Sea  - Now that Rainbow Blossom is done, I can start another Quiet Play pattern club!  I like having a paper piecing project to do to mix up my regular piecing.  It works a different part of my brain!  This quilt-along is two blocks a month for six months, but I'm planning on stretching it out over the entire year. Quilt Progress (4 WIPs touched) Sew Place Like Home  - This month's block is Glinda, the good witch...

 The four-year quilt-along is done! Rainbow Blossom was the first pattern club offered by Kristy at Quiet Play and she didn't originally intend for people to sew all the blocks together into one top - it was just a way to share a collection of her old and new blocks over the course of a year.  But of course, lots of people besides me did just start sewing them together!  All the patterns on this quilt top except the music note are by Kristy (I improvised the stem and the flag onto her hexagon block to make it into the eighth note), though not all of them came from that first pattern club.  The seashell is from her most recent one and the Xs above the Twinkle are from Issue 35 of Make Modern magazine . The name comes from the fact that it's a scrappy rainbow quilt with one of my favorite basics, Blossom , as the background.  After I started making the quilt, Kristy came out with her first fabric line , so the binding and the backing (now available as a wide bac...