BluePip Designs

August wasn't a big sewing month for me.  I spent the month piecing Kinship blocks for my 100 Days quilt and quilting my Meeple quilt.  A lot of time was spent outside at the local amusement park and inside playing board games, depending on the weather that day.  Soon enough the kids will be back in school and I'll be sewing more.  I've got a baby shower gift and a birthday request that both need to be done by October! Quilt Tally WIP List at beginning of month: 12 WIP List at end of month: 12 Untouched in 2022: 5 Active QAL Projects: 2 Quilts Finished None! Quilts Started None! Quilt Progress (5 WIPs touched) Meeple Colorblock Quilt - All the hard work with this one is finished!  Everything is quilted in color-coordinated thread and the binding has been machine-stitched onto the front.  A few more nights in front of the TV and this will be finished! One Hundred Days One Hundred Blocks 2022 - This really needs a catchier name; is "

 The Meeple pillowcase is finished!  And, with the help of my kids, it has a pretty epic final photograph: They were not impressed with my photo of the pillow by itself, and even after we added the Carcassonne meeples, which were the inspiration for the Meeple pattern itself , they still felt like it needed a little more.  I highly approve! This project was somewhat unusual for me, in that it actually started with the pillow form itself!  (I normally make my own pillow forms from scraps to fit finished projects.) I had bought a new pillow and while it was comfortable, the fabric it was made of was not great.  It was so pilly it annoyed me to no end when I changed the pillowcase or even brushed the exposed end of it with a pillowcase on. Since it wasn't working, I thew it in the sewing room on my WIP pile with the thought that it would be a good pillow form for a completely enclosed pillowcase.  And there it languished, mostly because I wa