The problem is....I want to make them ALL! I have no discipline to say no.

Here in So. Carolina summer is hot and a great time to sew.......a lot. I too am lured by every post and pattern I see. It's hard to stick to my "to do" list. This post just makes it worse! Thanks.

No list ....I am a fairly spontaneous quilter who learned (the hard way) that lists lead to frustration and disappointment for me (plus my handwriting is not artistic like yours so my lists also do not look as pretty...). However, on a happy note, I spent quite a bit of time over the past year studying your stunning scrappy style - and am piecing a sailboat block baby quilt that (almost) looks like you chose the fabrics!!!! And that is very exciting - because I am totally enchanted with the result (so far)...

I would love to participate in a sew-along or quilt-along - especially if you were to host one with one of your new patterns!!!! Just sign me up....(hint, hint).

Thanks for another fun post!

Happy summer sewing!

I want to find the pattern for the 6 pointed star that is from Sewlux. Is there a link?

I made a flowering snowball last summer with Molly Flanders Makerie...and so glad I did...it was spontaneous and a pattern busier than I would have picked for myself...it was so fun...I used a Weeds layer cake with centers of solid colors.....It is one of my favorite quilts ever :)

Summer for me is the "non sewing" season; I admire those of you who are able to quilt undisturbed by the heat outside. Will look forward to your creations.

There's also the Farm Girl Vintage, Snapshots, and A Quilting Life's Summer Sampler quilt-along...and many more I am sure! I want to do nearly all of them, but am having to participate vicariously for now. I have sewn or quilted along before, and it is rewarding to stay (or try to stay) caught up. I was lucky enough to find a copy of the Spring Quiltmania issue just last week after a LOT of searching, and I audibly squealed in the Barnes & Noble. :-)

Sounds like it's going to be an outstanding sewing summer. Enjoy it. I'll be doing some sew alongs in 2016 for sure. Thank you for sharing some great ones.

Curious as to what Shake it Up looks like that you are going to make. I too am making a bow tie with quilting friend due to Lisa's blog. Love all on your to do list. Can't wait to see what you use.

Wow! So many projects in 3 months. You are ambitious. But you have motivated me to go back and look at the list from January and redo it for the next 3 mo. I have been distracted of course by a number of new things that came along...like mysmallworldqal. Not that I have started or anything beyond getting the magazine and pulling the sky fabrics. And just yesterday I got the Moda solids in happy mail from the FQS birthday sale to do "shameless copying Jen" in my case it will be "shamelessly copying Carrie copying Jen"

All I can say is Wow.. So many creative people out there. Thanks for the great pictures. They have inspired me to do at least a block of some sort today.

I do most of my sewing in Spring. I get revved up for the year with the Dallas Quilt Guild retreat in January and that keeps me well fueled until mid April. Then, the Dallas Modern Quilt Guild has a spring retreat that keeps me inspired into July and then it's down hill from there since Work kicks in around September and that is the kiss of death. My sewing room develops dust bunnies and I get cranky (like no coffee cranky)

I was lucky to pickup the Quiltmania magazine as soon as it was out. I have been working on getting some low volume pieces to start it. I've been closely following that QAL.It's a great quilt to travel with.
Other than that one, I have way too many quilts on my To Be Made list (with very limited time to work on them) to get distracted. LOL!

I am working on my collection of schnibbles. Just ready to bind Winter White, have to put the final border on Mon Ami and have prepared a kit for Nice Day! All made very scrappy out of Kansas Trouble Fabric! Easy to take to sew days. I have completed Madeline, Jersey girl and Sweet Spot. Thanks Carrie, for my favorite patterns of all time! I am just sorry it took me so long to start!

I'm sewing more in summer, too, because I'm way more motivatited and the light is better and life generell is better:-)
I'm follow Sherri's Summer Quilt-along, doing the 'Schnibbles' parade and my Green Tea and Sweet Beans pattern (as part of Sinta's and Nicole's Jen-Kingwell-Sewing-Along). That enough for me right now but perhaps I'll add another thing if you're doing a quilt along ... please:-)

No list,wing it but my goal is to do several Dear jane blocks.

Yes I do,there are many I`d love to do.Now I`m doing Scraps Dance QAL hosted by Carole.

Loved hearing from you again, our Schnibbles friend!! And I see I need to make a list: right now I'm overwhelmed by UFO's , so I think a list would help focus me!!! :-)

I put my list together yesterday... but, it is subject to change! I would have joined in on the Quiltmania Small World project... thank God I didn't find a copy of the magazine! I am waiting for the Frivols to start showing up... they will be on the end of summer list!

Help I can't find that magazine....love Small World...wonder if the pattern will ever be available? Hint Hint.....

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I'm guilty of continually buying more fabric and getting farther and farther behind. I am currently working on another of my granddaughter's quilts. Plus, working of the big Moda Modern Blocks quilt from a quilt shop BOM class, Pat Sloan's BOM, the new Primitive Gathering's BOM from Fat Quarter Shop, etc. I totally love being retired! The grandchildren are in town much more often that summer is here so my sewing time is less but I would much rather play with the grandkids than sew. It will all work out!

I do most of my quilting in the winter...with 5 kids summer is play time! Also, I love snuggling under a quilt while I bind with the snow blowing outside.

I have completed 6 quilts so far this year and that is a record for me! I am trying so hard to work through my already purchased kits/fabrics/patterns so that I can justify buying lots of the loveliness that is coming out this Fall. :)

Lots of summer sewing here (at least for me). Small group of us are doing the Summer Sew-Along with the Temecula Quilt company (4" finished blocks ... 3/4 of them each week for 9 weeks). Trying to keep up with another BOM I signed up with through The Fat Quarter Company ... turning out to be a beautiful quilt, too. Rest of it is finishing up UFOs when I can and STRAIGHTENING OUT THE SEWING ROOM!!! That could take most of the summer itself!!