BluePip Designs

It's March and that means it's time for another Meadow Mist Designs mystery quilt reveal!  Can you believe that this is the fifth mystery quilt designed by Cheryl that I've made? This year's pattern was called the Marble Mystery Quilt , and I enjoyed getting the instructions on the first Thursday of each month.  After a little bit of prep work they made excellent leader and ender blocks for my other projects (especially all of those flying geese!).  Most of my other mystery quilts have been scrappy, but this time I actually started off with the correct yardage in my own chosen colorway. I backed the quilt with a purple wideback that I had in my stash - it was exactly the right width so I think  I bought it to get free shipping earlier this year when placing a different order.  I normally label fabric that I buy so far ahead of time, but this one was flying free so maybe it was just a nice coincidence.  I quilte...

It's a cold and rainy evening in November and I'm dreaming about the crisp fall weather we had back in October when I went on a before-school mission with my son to take photos of my Lemon Blossom Mystery quilt (which I actually finished in September)! The pattern was written by Kindred Quilt Co as a guest designer for the Toad Circle Mystery Quilt program.  Toad Circle was new to me, although she's done many mystery quilt-alongs before.  I found the site through a quilty friend who asked if I was interested in sewing a mystery quilt with curves.  I had mentally added a quilt with my curves to my "want to sew" list so I responded with an enthusiastic "yes!"  I was doubly excited when I saw that that supplies list required a fat quarter bundle; I immediately purchased the one I had my eye on,  Giucy Giuce's Motley  collection. I actually finished the quilt top on time and quickly basted it.  Then I straight-line quilted the horizontal an...

Now that the rush of preparing for the quilt show  and making two baby quilts ( one and two ) is over, I'm filling my calendar up with new quilt-alongs. I was looking for a photo of the first mystery quilt-along that I did for an Instagram post and realized that it pre-dates my blog.  So today I present to you, the Midnight Mystery Quilt ! My love of quilt-alongs started early, and while this wasn't the first one that I ever did, it was the first mystery one.  I started it in July of 2015 and finished it in March of 2016.  According to my official quilt tracking spreadsheet, it is the 38th quilt that I ever started.  I remember reading the fabric requirements and instantly deciding that I wanted to use both pink and orange fabrics and then just going for it, but not much else about the actual construction process or how I picked the final fabrics. It's also one of the first quilts that I quilted myself and this photo...

A movie quilt is a fun quilt, and today I am sharing one based on one of the most iconic movies of all time, The Wizard of Oz ! This was a quilt-along quilt designed by John at Art East Quilting .  Not only did I finish it on time, I even worked on the blocks in the correct order; the patterns were released monthly so there was no way to work ahead.  Each month, I received a character block and and a border block to make.  I bought the background fabric, but the rest of the quilt is scrappy from my stash.  Mostly solids, but with a print thrown in when I felt it was appropriate. Sometimes I struggle to find a place to photograph my quilts, but I saw this green bridge "over nothing" in front of a water tower at the edge of the bowling alley parking lot when I was dropping my child off at a birthday party and knew it was perfect.  When we came back to take the photos, there was no wind and we got several nice shots in under five minutes, which may be a quilt photo...

 Are you ready to travel back in time to the 1980s?  If you are, I have just the quilt for you! The pink and aqua solids in this quilt remind me of the 1950s-themed diner I worked in in high school, but the pop of black in the block centers bring me right to the 1980s!  This is the newest mystery quilt from Meadow Mist Designs, the Macaron Mystery Quilt , and like all my mystery quilts, it is scrappy from my stash. I love the look of on-point blocks, but I forgot how tricky they can be to put together (my Chalk Stars and Zephyr quilts give the illusion of being on-point, but are pieced traditionally)!  The back is also from my stash, featuring some pink gingham that I thought would never find a home and some gray yardage originally bought for another project.  That project has been languishing in my WIP, untouched, for over three years and there's no special reason for this exact fabric to be used, so I can always go shopping if and when I come back it. Here's...

It's spring!  That means our weather alternates between "warm" (50s!) and rainy.  The only day this week predicted to be dry was Monday, so I made that my unofficial deadline as "photography day".  Luckily, I finished in time!  Presenting my beautiful, pastel-colored Morewood Mystery Quilt! We ended up at a local historical house and I was delighted to find this white wooden bench behind it - it might be my favorite quilt picture so far this year! This quilt is the Morewood Mystery Quilt , designed by Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs.  All of the fabrics are from my stash and the colors weren't planned out when I started - I just looked around for something that I had enough yardage of as each clue was released!  I did make one major change to the pattern - I didn't use a single background color, instead opting to use a solid fabric that complimented the print used in each set of instructions.  So Cher...

My 2020 Adventure quilt is done ahead of schedule! Such a rarity in the quilting world, right?  But after I finished the last two blocks and assembly at the virtual retreat my guild put on earlier this month, it was a breeze to baste and quilt this.  I did a simple meander in gray over the entire thing and was able to quilt the whole thing in a single afternoon with only two bobbin changes! This quilt was a yearlong event put on by my guild.  Each month was created by a different member - you may remember that back in May I contributed a 12" block featuring two borders and triangles .  We weren't working together and we didn't have any priority knowledge of what the other blocks would be.  I told my aunt my vision for this quilt was "something you'd see in a picture book" and I think I succeeded! My original thought was to photograph this at our local aviation museum, but it was closed due to COVID.  My son and I decided to stop at the nature preserve inst...

Every year, Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs hosts a mystery quilt quilt-along .  I made her 2015 quilt and regretted not making her 2016 quilt, so I was very excited to try my hand at the 2017 version, the Magnolia Mystery Quilt.  I decided to go with a Christmas theme and use up some of the fabrics from my holiday stash. Cheryl does a great job of laying out the requirements for the quilt, letting you know how much of each color you'll need and which fabrics touch each other.  I decided to use red as my background with a light green, dark scrappy green, and red on white print.  September started off with a lot of half-square triangles. October was a little more intense: half-flying geese blocks!  Flying geese are my nemesis, but I used them as leaders and enders, trimming as I went along, so it didn't seem like as much work.  This is where the mystery part of the quilt comes in handy - had I just looked at this pattern I probably wouldn't have ma...