BluePip Designs

November consisted of three weeks of nonstop sewing followed by one lovely week of vacation in Florida.  I'm looking forward to a December filled with casual sewing, lots of baking, and a brand-new pattern release! Quilt Tally WIP List at beginning of month: 11 WIP List at end of month: 11 Untouched in 2023: 3 Active QAL Projects: 0 I feel like these numbers haven't changed much!  Of the 11 WIP projects, only 4 were started this year.  2 will be finished by the end of December, 1 was designed to be long-term, and 1 is a slow-moving WIP.  All of them have been worked on recently, so it's mostly my older projects hanging around and clogging this up! Quilts Finished Windsuit (August 2023) Quilts Started Pebbled Prairie: Boats Edition. This is my newest pattern and I'm actually doing this one backwards.  I normally sew up a quilt sample as I write my rough draft of the pattern, but this time the entire pattern is written and with the technical editor while

Today I am welcoming the newest 100 Days Quilt to the 100 Days Archive : Bananas! Bananas is the 8th quilt that I have made with Ange and her 100 Days quilt-along challenge .  My theme this year is solids and low volume.  Each block was made up of solids and low volume prints from my stash.  In fact, only one fabric was purchased for this entire quilt, a low volume one that goes with the green block in the upper left. The back is also from my stash, a colorful wideback that I have no recollection of purchasing.  It was a little bit short, so I extended it with the black (ink?) Spotted fabric that I also bound the quilt with.  I liked the Twister pantograph from my Wizard of Oz quilt  so much that I had Lauren use it again on this one.  It's such a nice all-over pattern! If you are counting carefully, you may notice that this quilt has more than 100 blocks in it.  I opted for one of the optional layouts, which required making many of the blocks more than once and then combining