BluePip Designs

Welcome to my monthly recap of all the projects I worked on this month! I severely underestimated how much sewing time my pattern release and spring break would take away from me so it's a shorter list than normal, but sometimes that's just how it goes! Quilt Tally WIP List at beginning of month: 11 WIP List at end of month: 12 Untouched in 2023: 4 Active QAL Projects: 2 Quilts Finished Fair Day (March 2023) Quilts Started Scrap Cabinet - I first saw the Scrap Snap pattern when I was linking up my January OMG finish , and it's been hanging out in my head ever since.  When I was cleaning up the sewing room after finishing my pin banner , I looked at the sewing machine, saw the red thread already threaded, and couldn't resist starting this project any longer.  I'm not going to share a picture right now, but the quilt is called "Scrap Cabinet" because I am restricting myself to ONLY use fabric that's already ...

A lovely, quick project to share with you today.  A few months ago my son received a small pin for his participation in stage crew and over spring break he did a lettering project to earn a high school letter for drama!  He's devoted many hours to the crew this year (at least as many as I have to quilting) and we're so proud of him.  He doesn't want a letter jacket, but he does want a special way to display his awards in his room so I offered to make him a pin banner. He won't get the actual letter until sometime in May, but when he does all I have to do is sew it on and he'll have a wonderful keepsake.  Since he's very artistic too, we made this into a group project.  We looked at different examples of banner shapes and sizes online and he was able to measure a letter that was on display at his school.  From there, he made me a construction paper template of exactly what he wanted. He was thorough enough to give me actual angle measurements and lengths, bu...

Hello!  I'm back today with another version of the brand-new  Fair Day quilt pattern.  This version is called Bright Day because the two main colors are neon! This is actually the first version of the quilt that I made.  It's a smaller baby-sized quilt because I was working off of my original rough draft and my quilt math was wrong.  I didn't even realize I had done my calculations on a 12-block layout until I was trying to lay everything out to match my mock-up.  I didn't have enough fabric to make four more blocks and my accent fabric didn't work with the other three colors, so this cute baby quilt is what I ended up with!  I do love these colors together so I have no regrets.  It's still adorable and will make some baby very happy one day! The back of Bright Day comes from two other quilts: the Alice in Wonderland Challenger Quilt  and the Wake Me Up Watermelon Quilt .  That makes three quilts in a row with a scrappy, scavenged back ...

I'm pleased to introduce the newest BluePip Designs pattern today.  Meet Fair Day ! Recently I've become fascinated with combining small blocks together to form larger patterns, and Fair Day is my first successful experiment.  All of the blocks are pieced traditionally and the pattern comes together quickly. It feels like I am stuck in an endless winter this year (it's snowing right now as I'm writing this and there's more predicted for later this week), but the colors and patterns in Fair Day make me think of the county fair in the summer time which is how the quilt got its name.  I've never actually entered anything in the fair, but I'm considering entering this one - maybe it can win a real ribbon! I've been digging deep into my stash this year and the blue background fabric is one that I've had forever.  It is a Grunge-like Moda fabric from before Grunge was released.  The red, white, and yell...

Today I'm sharing a quilt that can be made from a single layer cake, no additional fabric required.  A lot of quilts that are made from precuts require purchasing additional yardage to round things out, but this one doesn't.  And, best of all, it's made with dinosaur fabric! Do you still remember your favorite dinosaur from when you were a kid?  Mine was the stegosaurus!  We used to sing the "I am a Stegosaurus" song in kindergarten and I might be humming it right now as I write this post.  When I first saw the Stomp, Stomp Roar fabric by Stacey Iest Hsu I was charmed and when Fat Quarter Shop asked me to make this shortcut quilt and the dino fabric was on the list of available layer cakes I was thrilled! I've actually wanted to make a dinosaur quilt for a long time, and I even bought fabric to do so, but I never found a pattern I liked enough to cut into it (aside for a few masks for my dinosaur-loving son).  I decided that one dinosaur quilt is probabl...