Saturday, March 23, 2019

Quiltalong Temptations

It's the weekend! I can't wait to get into the sewing room and have so many ideas for things I want to sew that I might not come out again until summer...
or Monday, whichever comes first!
I am trying to get focused, but then... 
well you know how it goes!?
You see another wonderful pattern that you just have to try. 
I really want to make an owl block that Sally posted for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. You can see some versions of the owl posted here at the weekly RSC linkup. These are the green scraps that I am working with today and hope to have some owl blocks to post soon.

AND I'm really trying hard NOT to start another project *snort* 
I can hear you all laughing out there in blogland!
There is constant distraction from the multitudes of amazing projects going on in quilt universe and I'm so sad that there are only 24 hours in the day and that I have to work. 
Here are some of the treats that I have said "NO I can't possibly start another quilt" (see Janet, I do have a teeny tiny bit of self control sometimes LOL):

1) A fun mystery over at Alicia Quilts called "L1 Marvellous Mystery". Fabric requirements are here and she is making hers in plaids, which was so so tempting for me.


2) Alison at Little Bunny Quilts is posting steps for a mystery quilt called Daisy Chain. You can make your version in any size from baby quilt to queen size. 

3) AQS is offering a free pattern called "Paducah Sewalong" for a complex double wedding ring design with pieced blocks in the circles. If you're up for sewing a large king size quilt using a challenging design, they are posted a block per day. 


4) Also completely irresistible is the Sew Let's Quilt Along with a sewing theme! Block patterns are posted every 2 weeks and the first block is a sewing machine! 

Sewing on a project I love is the best strategy to avoid a bad case of Startitis...
I'm off to the sewing room and turning off the computer!

8 comments:

Karen - Quilts...etc. said...

OMG I can't even think of doing more than I am right now - I haven't even touched 3 of them in ages. How do you do it starting so many? The AQS one really looks interesting - but no, no, no

Karrin Hurd said...

You just named 2 I didn't know about.... I'm going to resist though. I need to work on my Hands2Help projects. I think...

Karen said...

Oh, an owl for sure!

Vroomans' Quilts said...

There are a lot of wonderful and tempting QALs this year, but my goal is to clear out those PIGS.

The Joyful Quilter said...

Did you HAVE to post all of those tempting projects?!?! Sigh...

Kate said...

Too many fun projects! I'm doing the Daisy Chain mystery and trying to put blinders on to anything else.

Janet O. said...

Ha, Ha! I am surprised to see that you ever say that word to a SAL! :)

Cathy said...

So far I've resisted several sew alongs too. It's been difficult!!! I still feel like joining in on one at Sentimental Stitches. I don't have enough of any one fabric for sashings so I told myself it was not meant to be. Then I found enough for some scrappy sashings and I told myself it was meant to be. Then I ran out of printer ink so can't print this month's blocks so I told myself it was not meant to be. Then...