WIP Wednesday: Guest-hosted by Rebecca

Hi there! My name is Rebecca and I blog over at Pieces and Cream. I’m delighted to be guest posting at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday. Lee and I are friends from the Milwaukee Modern Quilt Guild.

I live in Wauwatosa, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I mostly spend my time tending to my two sons under 4 and trying to be a good wife. I teach science at a small college part-time and in my leisure time I sing at my church, ride my bicycle and make things, mostly quilts.

Summers in Wisconsin are very short, therefore we cram all ourfestivals and fairs into about 3 months. That means I’ve been outside enjoyingthe weather, have all sorts of things in progress and am way behind on BOM’sand QAL’s. Oh well, got to enjoy the sun whilst we can.

I’ve been working on this quilt for a year because it’s beenput on the back burner a lot. I thought summer was a good time to bring it backout and finish it. Some of you may remember the Dead Simple QAL at Lily’sQuilts. The idea was to learn how to use a color palate, then match up thecolors to a fabric color palate, such as Kona Cotton Solids. I wasn’t overlyexcited about the finished top, which is probably why it stayed a WIP for solong. Well now that it’s quilted, I totally love it again. I tried “organicstraight line” quilting and it really added a ton to the finished quilt. I amhalf done with the binding and hopefully will have it finished by next week.

I am a huge Malka Dubrawsky fan and used her Stitched inColor line to make her Whirligig quilt from her book Fresh Quilting. I recentlybasted this quilt and have decided it will be used to teach myself tofree-motion quilt. You’ve probably seen that Angela Walters wrote a book calledFree Motion Quilting. I picked up a copy after seeing a review and it’s gotawesome pictures that will really help me visualize how to start/stop and whichdirection to go while quilting. I’ve just got to get over my fears and try it!!This might remain a WIP while I give myself breaks from tackling such a hugenew skill.

Another project that is going to take me a long time is ahexagon quilt. I FINALLY cut into my Echo by Lotta Jansdotter and what betterway to show off the large-scale prints than with 6.5” hexagons right? Eventhough I won’t be hand piecing these together, I have to cut out around 150whole and 50 half hexagons. That’s going to take me forever, making it anotherone of those projects that remains a WIP for several months. If I try to dothis all at once, I’ll go crazy. I’ve been drooling over hexagon quilts andEcho for a long time so this quilt will be well worth the wait.

Besides some bee blocks, the only other WIP that I have lying around that I haven’t made progress on is the BOM over at Sew Mama Sew. I’ve got 3 blocks done and have 3 more cut out. Even though I totally love my fabric choices, I always forget about this before making plans for another quilt.Speaking of that, there are no lack of plans for more quilts and there really never are enough hours in the day, especially hours spent quilting! I bet most of you can relate.Now it’s your turn to link up. Here are the rules:

1.Link up any post from the past week that features at least one unfinished work-in-progress (WIP)

2. Somewhere in your post, link back here to my blog. (Or grab my WIP Wednesday button for your sidebar.)

3. Comment on at least a few of the other links—because what fun is a linky party without comments?