BluePip Designs

Summer is not letting go easily!  I survived whooping cough and a second degree burn (from cooking, not my iron!), but also went on two fun overnight trips and finished the Pebbled Prairie pattern , which is a jelly roll friendly pattern that will be released in early September, before National Jelly Roll Day! It's been a little slower on my over on my Instagram feed because so much time has been spent on my computer but I'm looking forward to sewing more in September after the kids go back to school. Quilt Tally WIP List at beginning of month: 13 WIP List at end of month: 13 Untouched in 2024: 4 Active QAL Projects: 2 Quilts Finished Halloween Pebbled Prairie (July 2024) Quilts Started Christmas Memories - A new quilt-along that I'm doing with the Fat Quarter Shop for the new Halloween Memories book. Quilt Progress (5 WIPs touched) MMQG Sewing (Test Block Sampler and The Rest of the Quilt Back) - There's only one more month to go in...

Good morning!  Now that summer is winding down, I'm jumping into another new quilt-along, this time with the Fat Quarter Shop .  This one features the Moonlight Quilt from the Halloween Memories book by Susan Ache . Oh, it looks my book has been slightly amended!  Since I just finished a Halloween quilt last week (more on that later!), I decided to get a jump on the next holiday and make my version of the quilt in Christmas fabrics.  Because really, any quilt can be made to fit any theme.  I'm going with bold colors and the In From the Cold fabric collection . The red and green coloring sheet is my colors and the orange and purple version is on the back of the book.  Changing the colors will make this look like a completely different quilt!  I'm also very excited about the very tiny fussy cutting that I'm adding in to some of the blocks (this is optional - don't let it scare you off!). Interested...

I've had a red and black and white quilt on my mental "to make someday" list for a long time, and I am happy to say that I've finally made one! This is the newest shortcut quilt from The Fat Quarter Shop , called Layer Cake Lily .  I made the large throw version with two layer cakes of Sable and Swan  and Kona Poppy as my background.  I decided that I wanted all of the "petals" on the blocks to be dark colors, so I set some of the layer cake squares aside for other projects and used extra binding fabric as the petals in the four center blocks (I always overbuy the binding!). I've been obsessed with flannel backs for a while now, but it's summer and I didn't want the warmth of that in my lap while I hand-bound the quilt.  So this quilt got a pieced back, and I have to say, it's one of my favorites!  The big black and white numbers are from a different fabric line but complement the fabrics on the front perfectly.  ...