BluePip Designs

Another quilt-along quilt is done!  I tend to start off the year by paring down my WIP list, which normally means finishing up my quilt alongs from the previous year.  And the "fast finishes" (because all the blocks are made) are so satisfying.  This quilt-along is the Summer Sampler 2016 , hosted by three fantastic bloggers.  I was drawn in by the fact that the quilt featured both curves and paper piecing along with traditionally pieced blocks. I had a fat eighth bundle of Sun Print 2015 by Alison Glass laying around and I decided that this quilt was a good time to stop hoarding it and start using it.  And if I had to buy an entire fat quarter bundle of the line to finish the quilt up, well, that's just a happy coincidence.  I used her Text print as the background fabric to fulfill two personal goals: make a quilt with a text background and use a directional fabric without stressing over all of it going in the same direction on the quilt.  As I st...

Like many people, I fell in love with the Moda Building Blocks quilt when it debuted at quilt market in 2014.  I bought the kit, oohed over it when it arrived, and then stuck it on a shelf in my closet to make "someday".  I even had the backing fabric.  Then it sat and sat and sat.  Until a friend posted on Instagram that she was joining a quilt-along to make it.  I'm a sucker for a good quilt-along and I already had both the pattern and the fabric so I jumped in.  I'm so glad for the kick in the butt because it's done and I love it! I loved making this quilt so much that I actually finished it ahead of schedule.  It's huge so I had it long-armed and I still finished it before the end of the quilt-along.  If you look closely, there are a few changes from the original pattern, including the lost block from my Animal City Sampler .  And no, this is not what winter in Minnesota looks like.  I wasn't happy with my original picture, ...

Another mini quilt finish!  This quilt is from the Summer Solstice quilt along hosted by Happy Quilting Melissa .  I fell in love with it because of the curves!  I've been dabbling with curves lately and found I really enjoy sewing them.  Melissa offered a huge variety of size options for this quilt, and I decided to go with the larger block size and make a single one for a mini quilt.  I used the extra fabric from the paint drip quilt I made for Angela Pingel over the summer. This was a fast finish - there were five sets of instructions and you got a new set every two weeks.  It was easy to keep up because I was only making one block!  And the blues are so calming!  This one has been hung up on my sewing room wall.

A few years ago, a friend of mine asked me to create a Pokemon quilt for her son.  I found an awesome panel on Etsy and designed some Pokeballs to go above and below it and it was a hit! Now that Pokemon Go! has become popular, I've had questions on Instagram about the pattern for this quilt, so I've written one up for the Pokeballs I designed to use in it.  I wish I could write up a pattern for the whole quilt, but I just winged putting it together and I have no idea if the panel is even still available.   The pattern is available in my Etsy shop - go check it out!   No longer sold due to copyright.

A long, long, time ago, I didn't have a huge WIP list or idea list, or much of anything except a lot of leftover red and yellow fabric from the massive king-size quilt that I'd made for our bed.  So when I saw the Wishes Quilt-Along pop up in January 2014 I thought it sounded new and fun - an obsession was born! However, by the end of the year this fell off the radar.  One block a month was slower than I wanted to sew and I had started a lot of other projects.  I finally decided just to call it with the blocks that I had made and add a staggered border that seemed interesting to me.  I also had a brand-new free-motion foot that I wanted to practice with, so this was also the first of my intricately quilted quilts.  I used yellow, red, and navy thread to match the areas I was quilting.  I just love how everything in this quilt pops!