BluePip Designs

May seems to have gone by in the blink of an eye.  The month started with a long, fun visit from my mom, and ended with me trying to do all the things I've been putting off before the kids are off for the summer*.  Add in some nice weather, and I feel like I'm barely spending any time at all in my sewing room.  I was very motivated to finish my Oz quilt, even if I didn't quite get the binding on, and I spent some time working on a new pattern too!  And, of course, since the Oz top was done I had to start a brand-new quilt-along to take its place! * Yes, pictures and a blog post about the postage stamp quilt are on this list! Quilt Tally WIP List at beginning of month: 11 WIP List at end of month: 13 Untouched in 2023: 4 Active QAL Projects: 3 Quilts Finished Meeple Tablerunner (May 2023) Quilts Started Hello, Spring! QAL  - A new quilt pattern and quilt-along from one of my favorite designers, Pen+Paper Patterns!  I started slightly out of ord

A quick post today with a project that was made by special request: a Meeple table runner! All of my children are huge fans of board games and love the Meeple pattern.  When my son made his wooden cabinet in woodshop class this year, he engraved a Meeple into the top, but then asked me to make him a table runner/giant coaster to protect the top. I printed off the 6" Meeple pattern at 60% so that the stuff that lives on top of his nightstand (lamp, tissue box, random Pokemon cards) doesn't cover it up.  He picked all the fabrics and asked for the same quilting as the Meeple Colorblock Quilt - easy peasy.  For the back, he wanted flannel so we used a piece leftover from the Blue Zephyr quilt. The table runner has custom dimensions so it is a half-inch smaller than the top of his cabinet.  We all use those metal water bottles and it's nice to have a big target when you are taking a drink in the middle of the night.  I love sewing things for my kids, and it's an added b

Only 41 days to go until one of my favorite quilt-alongs of the year starts: 100 Days 100 Blocks .  Ange has a brand-new pattern this year and I can't wait to dive in and make it.  This will be my ninth time participating in this quilt-along!  But first, I need to share quilt number eight: the Black and White Kinship Quilt! This quilt started, oddly enough, with the backing fabric.  I had purchased a wideback online for another project (I don't even remember which one anymore) and decided that it didn't work with the top.  It got put into a box and largely forgotten. My mother-in-law saw it when she was visiting and told me that the only top that it would match well was a black-and-white top, and I knew instantly it was going to go with my next 100 Days quilt.  I like to have a loose theme for each one (they are all scrappy) and black-and-white was one I hadn't tried before. I was also excited because I had a lot of black-and-white novelty prints, like these birds, tha