epp progress, wip wednesday 2026.11

i've been steadily sewing a couple of pieces, or at least just one seam, for "london wardrobe" every day now. fourteen out of 100 days, done and dusted. my plan of attack is to put 3 to 4 hexagons & adjoining pieces together, then join those as pairs, and keep upscaling the size of pieces i'm connecting until i have this row complete. one of the original 3 wheel cogs (what i call the interconnected wheels) will be attached to the right of the above pieces, and then there's one or two more sets until this row is done.

looky what i found in my sewing room! mooooore of the original fabrics for this project. when i was gathering all the parts of this project together a few months ago, i thought i had seen some of them in one of my milk crates, but couldn't locate them. today i found it.

so. much. fabric.

there are even some more black-and-white prints i put aside to use as hexagon centers. i like these prints more than some that i've already used.

these are the only fabrics that weren't prewashed yet. all the fabrics in the basket that i purchased for this quilt were prewashed because the book that taught me to epp said you really need to wash for epp projects. so i did. that makes it hard to use the leftovers with other projects because i'm not a prewasher for all my other quilts! so i'll have to prewash these if i decide to still add them in the quilt, but i will only wash small amounts, not the whole fat quarter (or whatever is here of each).

i also came across my travel epp pouch with the makings for two wheels inside. i would just mix these pieces back in with the others, but i already attached all the squares to one of the hexagons.

so i'll be completing that wheel by adding the triangles in, but mix the pieces for the other wheel into the general pile. that's one more individual wheel i'll have to work in now, but it just is what it is.

i did my first bit of unpicking when i accidentally sewed a triangle side to a hexagon. that isn't supposed to happen. it won't even lie flat that way! 

and then i did another unpicking when i turned a partial wheel i was adding onto a cog the wrong way. i let out a sigh or two of frustration with myself and then just fixed it. not so bad, really.

i was stitching during a zoom meet-up hosted by heather ross and denyse schmidt about a quilt kit collab they did. the zoom meeting was fun, but it made for some distraced stitching. maybe it wasn’t the best idea to combine the two activities? . the "crazy star" quilt is a fun one, especially in the fabrics heather used. it's one i'd like to do someday. i'm pretty sure denyse sent me the pattern as part of my prize kit for the fwsg quiltalong, but it will have to wait until my "season of wips" is over. 

epp is the only quilting i've done this week as i've been going hard at house design and i've got some travel coming up, so i've had to work at packing. my sewing projects were packed first because i know my priorities. so no other piecing or quilting for me lately. however, with spring break around the corner, i'll have some handstitching time soon. "cheery (easter) quilt" will get some more colors added.

i'm still strong on the unintentional fabric fasting. i'm just not buying fabric because there has been no need for it and as i've buried my head in the sand from social media, i'm not tempted by what i don't see out there. heather ross did mention in the zoom chat that they've added 35 new colors to the ruby + bee solids collection, which is really tempting. i think i can wait, though. since they're solids, they will be available for a while as part of a permanent collection. i looked at them on the windham site and they are pretty, so they are definitely on my wishlist for the future. but for now, i am not motivated enough to purchase immediately.

i had a scathingly brilliant quilt-related house design idea come to me the other morning. if it actually comes to fruition, i'll share. it involves heather bailey and possibly hsts. that's all i'll say for now. the house won't go under construction until next year at the earliest, so i have time to work on it. until then, it lives in my brain and makes me smile on occasion.

happy stitching, friends!