BluePip Designs

It's always a rush when a new pattern is released, and I'm pleased to announce that this month I released my newest quilt pattern, Windsuit .  I've talked about it a lot on here, and it's wonderful to finally share it with everyone!  I didn't get a lot of other sewing done this month because I spent a lot of time on the computer, but my new second monitor did help a lot with my productivity! Quilt Tally WIP List at beginning of month: 11 WIP List at end of month: 10 Untouched in 2024: 4 Active QAL Projects: 1 Quilts Finished Solids Challenge Quilt (February 2024) Quilts Started None! Quilt Progress (4 WIPs touched) Under the Sea  - I started this quilt block almost two months ago and it's finally finished!  I normally change out my thread color when I'm doing paper piecing to match the piece of fabric I'm adding (so many thread changes in the red crab), but since the teal crab was so close in color to the background I didn't b...

Today I am sharing the third Windsuit sample that I made: my fun 1980s print Baby Windsuit quilt ! Even as I was making the solids mini quilt and the dyed denim throw-sized quilt , I knew that I wanted to make a version that included the leftover houndstooth fabric from the back of my second Cobblestone quilt .  From there, I was off to the races trying to piece together a baby-sized quilt top from my stash.  I easily matched the houndstooth with a fun purple Giucy Giuce  print (now out of stock) that had a motif that was always just a little bit too large to use as a fussy cut. I ended up chopping the edges off of each piece just a little bit and loved the overall effect.  A little more digging in my stash, and I found the perfect fabric to be my pop of yellow with its matching accent colors.  But when I went to make the half-square triangle blocks and the striped blocks I realized I had an issue - do you see it? Too much blue and teal!  No matter how I l...

Today has been a long time in the making; I first came up with the idea for my Windsuit quilt pattern in July of 2022 when I was watching the Season 4 Part 2 release of Stranger Things .  At the time, I even called it my "Stranger" pattern, but that sounded just a little too sinister so I decided to go with Windsuit instead in honor of the wonderful early 1990s fashion trend. I took a little trip down memory lane (any other Xennials still have stacks and stack of old photo albums?) and found many, many examples of my family (both kids and adults) wearing these comfy, noisy, coordinating two-piece sets.  The swish, swish, swish of the nylon as you walked was just so satisfying!  I had several, but the blue one in the first picture was my absolute favorite, and, as you can see, they were versatile enough that my grandparents chose to wear them on Christmas Eve 1992! You could even wear just the jacket if you wanted to show off ...

The first quarter of 2024 flew by in a flash.  You might remember that I ended 2023 in a bit of a funk , so I decided to jumpstart 2024 with a challenge I've always admired but never partaken in: Project Quilting !  Project Quilting is a series of six different prompts to make an entire quilted project in just one week and I'm happy to report that I successfully finished all six challenges. Challenge My Project Challenge Prompt My Personal Challenge 1 Birdhouses I went into Week 1 with no expectations. I ended up making a FPP project based on three renderings of birdhouses created by my children. 2 Sky Color My goal was "fast and pixelated". I achieved one of these! ...