WIP Wednesday: WIPs From Way Back
I decided to work on some sad and long-neglected WIPs this week, before starting a few new projects next week. That meant heading straight to my drawer of unassembled bee quilts. (Yes, I have a whole drawer of those. I know, it's appalling.)This HST star quilt practically jumped out of the drawer and begged to be finished. The blocks were made for me by the Sew Beautiful bee. I had fallen in love with a similar quilt made by Rita of Red Pepper Quilts (and I think she was inspired by Jeni's Giant Vintage Star Quilt). So I sent the Sew Beautiful ladies a bunch of Kona Solid charm squares to make the blocks.
So I finally hauled out those blocks, which are a nice, big 16" square finished. I made two more of my own (which was quick and easy thanks to extra HSTs sent by my bee-mates), put the quilt together and added a white border to give it a little breathing space. (Just pretend you can't see all those wrinkles in the quilt top! Eek!) I can't wait to finish this one, but I'm having trouble deciding how to quilt it. Any suggestions?
Next I pulled out my Farmer's Wife blocks. Yes! I did! (I can hear the collective gasp from all across blogland.) I spread the blocks out and ... nope, still not feeling it. Darn. I like the blocks and all—I just don't feel like making more of them.What did inspire me was the color palette and the prints I used for these blocks. I had squirreled away most of the fabric so that I would have it when I decided to work on these again, but I think it's time to put all these fabulous vintage prints back into GenPop. And I'm going to start with a project I've been intending to make for many months (years, really): A simple patchwork picnic quilt for my family.
So here's my pull for the picnic quilt—same color palette as my Farmer's Wife, minus the pink. As with my Farmer's Wife, I'm concentrating on fun, vintage prints. I was trying to remember if I've ever made just a simple patchwork-squares quilt, and I don't think that I have! First time for everything! Can't wait to get cutting and piecing!What are you working on this week? Here are the linky 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, you must link back here to my blog. (Or grab the WIP Wednesday button for your sidebar.)3. Comment on at least a few of the other WIP Wednesday links.