And the List Expands...

The New Year always brings a bunch of quilt a-longs, and I always have a hard time deciding which ones I want to do vs. how many I can handle doing at once.  This particular year there seems to be a plethora of fun options.  I saw 3 that I'm really tempted to join, so the first thing I did was clean up my fabric stash to figure out what exactly I had to work with.

1- I have a TON of scraps from previous quilts that I think I'm going to use for the Dancing Stars Quilt A-Long.  This is going to be more of a long term project for me since they give you the pattern and you work at the pace you want.

2- I saw Sister's Ten modern BOM and fell in love with the design and blocks they're making over at Gen X Quilters.  It's 2 blocks a month, and I've decided to do an all solids quilt with the Kona Rainbow bundle I got from the do.Good Stitches quilt winnings.  I am a lover of all things Kona, so I'm pretty excited about this one.

from Marmalade Fabrics

3- The last quilt along I'm a bit on the fence about - not because I don't want to participate, but because I'm afraid I'm adding too many projects to my pile all at once.  Alyssa is doing a Skill Builder Quilt Along.   It doesn't start until later in the month, so I have a little time to decide.  I did a Skill Builder last year and loved it.  This one looks very different, and I'm particularly intrigued, because it's a "quilt as you go" for each block.  I've always wanted to do this, so that I could work on some more intricate quilting on a smaller scale.  Oh bother - I'm probably going to end up doing it.  Now I just have to figure out what fabric I'm going to use.

Besides quilt a-longs I have a bunch of projects that need to get done.  I have a couple baby quilts that are time pressing.  A dear friend of mine just had a baby girl six weeks early, so I am caught without a quilt ready for her - oops.  I pieced together all of the blocks yesterday and I hope to have the quilt top put together tonight.

My sister is also expecting a little girl at the end of Spring, and I want to make sure it's done in plenty of time, so that's next on the list.  

It looks like I better get sewing!