BluePip Designs

I took a different approach to making my baby version of Pebbled Prairie .  I felt like all of my mock-ups were leaning towards the same colorway so I asked my sister-in-law to pick the colors for me.  The only guideline I gave her were the colors I wanted to avoid. I think she did a great job!  These are not colors I ever would have picked and it gives the quilt top an entirely different feel.  Perhaps I should have used a darker gray color in the outer ring, but having two lighter colors in the rings gives it an interesting secondary pattern that I really like.  This version also shows off the traditional grid layout versus the more modern offset layout of the throw size that I shared yesterday. I also wanted to share the other versions of the quilt that are included in the pattern here.  The first image is the throw size made with four colors, the second image is the large throw, and the third image is the queen. All of them are made the same way, it's just a change in how the

It's pattern release day!  Say hello to Pebbled Prairie , the newest BluePip Designs pattern! This design came to me in the middle of one of my daily walks last fall.  I had to detour from my normal route due to some road construction and ended up walking through the parking lot of the original high school for my town.  I'd been there before many times (my middle son went to preschool there), but never actually looked  at the building. But that day, I noticed it and immediately decided it needed to be my next quilt pattern. I spent the rest of my walk thinking about how I could turn that into a quilt pattern.  I started with a literal interpretation, but by the time I got home I had decided on a scrappier version.  I walked in the house and immediately sat down and started sketching so I wouldn't forget. I also added alternate layouts that have a more traditional and less modern feel.  By adding an extra column to the throw-size layout, Pebbled