WIP Wednesday–here we are again. This is a good mid-weekly progress check every week, and many thanks to Lee of Freshly Pieced for hosting us all.
Well, I met a goal.
For two months, goals have been something to hide from or add to a already-too-long list or wistfully stare out the window while contemplating goals. But yesterday, Valentine’s Day, I met my goal of getting this quilt quilted. And had I not had to stop to read 50 pages of the novel I’m teaching (Moon Over Manifest), I probably would have had the whole thing done. But sometimes it’s okay to leave a project at the cusp of completion as it will draw you in for tomorrow. So, I guess you could say, this is still in progress. But in a good way, not a moaning way.
UPDATE: I drew up some loose instructions and have it for you at its new home: Revisiting the Red & White Pinwheel.
And under Krista’s enthusiastic encouragement, I tried my hand at English Paper Piecing. You know I had an English great-grandmother, who I’m named for (Elizabeth). So I called up my mother and asked her if my gr-grandmother ever did English paper piecing. “No,” she said. “She was a gardener. She spent any free time she had in her garden. It was my mother — your grandmother — who was the sewer in the family.” So, in homage to them both, I’m making something with flowers.
I finished the middle, sewed some more together and attached them to the central flower. Kind of a stuck space for knowing where to go from here in terms of sewing things together, but IF I can imagine myself as a young bride in the late 1800s far away from my mother and hometown of Bloxwich, England, and IF I were a quilter, carrying forward my mother’s traditions, I’d either have been doing this since I was a child, or I’d figure it out.
I’ll figure it out.
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OccasionalPiece--Quilt! 
Your red and white quilt is fabulous. But I’m really intrigued by the progress on your Rose Star. It’s going to be beautiful!
I think the EPP looks fabulous! I’m with you on being stuck about where to go next, though. 🙂 I know you’ll figure it out, and we’ll all be amazed at what you come up with. Good luck!
The red quilt is gorgeous! I love the little pinwheels in between, it looks very fancy.
Love your red and white quilt. It’s awesome. I’m into Rose stars, too. They’re quite addictive.
Wow, look at that EPP, it’s gorgeous!! Very inspiriing!! Love the red and white quilt too.
The EPP is lovely. Great work on fussy cutting!
love the read and white! good on you for trying english paper piecing! I don’t have the patience for it but its beautiful work!
oops, read=red
yay! always awesome to meet a goal. i know you’d be able to figure it out, but if for some reason you want assistence just email me!
awesome red and white quilt! it is such a thrill to FINISH! love the pinwheels. yesterday I picked up a little box at goodwill. it is filled with very old 2 3/8″hexagons. and a few made into star flowers sewn by hand. I have not done EPP but am now wondering what to do with these treasures. always something to stitch here:) thanks for sharing. janita
You made a red and white quilt for Valentine’s day 2012. I was wondering if you had any idea of where the pattern came from? I’m interested in the pattern but couldn’t find a reference to it in the post. Thank you.