BluePip Designs

As always, the year started off hot with a lot of finishes!  I love that post-holidays energy boost.  I also spent some time cleaning up the recently defunct Make Modern affiliate links (this is their last year publishing) and updated Project Quilting links.  If you find a dead link on my blog and need help finding where it is supposed to go, please let me know so I can fix it up. Quilt Tally WIP List to Start the Quarter:  9 WIP List to End the Quarter: 9 Active QAL Projects: 1 Untouched in 2026: 4 Finished in Q1: 7 quilts, 3 cross-stitch projects, 2 small projects Let's jump right in and look at how I did with my Q1 Goals : 2026 Q1 Goal 1: Cuddlekiss Release Cuddlekiss was released on its planned date of February 1st!  It's never too early to start next year's Valentine's Day project (or any project to show your love for someone) so go check it out! Cuddlekiss Here Kitty ...

Welcome to my final Project Quilting challenge for 2026, A Happy Handful .  I knew I needed to do a small project for this week, and the theme did a good job of not tempting me to go big. Pretzel is yet another potholder!  You can never have too many, and it's fun to experiment with different sizes and techniques.  This week I debated with myself over doing a traditional binding or brown-bagging it , and I'm glad that the traditional binding won.  It's the right finish for this particular project. One of the things on my personal Project Quilting challenge list for this year was to use a block from the 100 Paper Pieced Quilt Blocks book I found in my sewing room (and don't remember buying, oops).  I had the idea for the general layout and quilt plan ready to go, but couldn't decide on which block to use.  So I went to my go-to of bugging my family!  My husband was the first person I saw and I asked him to...

I'm jumping in late with my Project Quilting project this week because I made a grave mistake: I finally basted my Blue Coin quilt on Monday.  It has been ready and waiting since before Christmas, and the fates finally aligned for me to get it done.  And once I have a freshly basted quilt, I cannot resist immediately starting to quilt it.  So all my sewing time this week was taken up by ditch-stitching the horizontal lines in it.  I didn't want to switch over from my walking foot to my piecing foot so I was "stuck". But the good news is, I finished the last horizontal line today (and the trimming) and was able to move on to my Project Quilting project!  I started this week with a brief refresher on what complimentary colors are and I absolutely fell in love with this paint-swatch demonstration of them (you can see it in the splash screen above if you don't want to click the link).  I then spent a lot of...