BluePip Designs

After a long summer of slow stitching, I decided I needed to end the summer with a finished quilt. When I saw the new set of animal ghost patterns from Quiet Play , I knew I had found my project. And here he is, my newest mini quilt, Ghost Duck! We have many small duck toys in our home, so the duck was the logical choice for my little ghost. I pieced the entire top from scraps during a Zoom quilt guild meeting and then finished it up over the next few days. The quilting is done with white lines that blend in on the ghost and show up a little bit on the background, and the eyes are unquilted to give them more punch. The binding matches the background fabric. I could have faced the project, but decided that this worked well enough. The backing is what is left from the binding on my other duck quilt , which is a nice bit of full-circle fabric usage. And that's it! A sweet, fast finish to end my summer, and a new decoration for Hallowe...

Can you believe it's been almost three months since I completed a quilt?  For me, that's a long time!  I'm pretty close though: I finished two tops last week and I'm working on the last block of a third right now.  The first top is bagged up and ready for the longarm quilter, but waiting so I can take the third top at the same time.  The second top is basted and waiting for me to send those two out so I can quilt it myself at home.  So there should be a flurry of finished quilts in September! I have also done a little non-quilt sewing.  My son asked me a few months ago if I could make him a dice bag for his new D12 collection, and I'm always happy to sew custom requests for my kids (but only my kids!).  I dusted off my favorite drawstring bag pattern , but, unfortunately, none of the fabric in my stash fit his vision, so he had to wait until I placed a new fabric order to pick out something that he liked.  I'm ...