Just because I want to

[This post brought to you by the magic of scheduled posting, as I am not doing any sewing at all while I'm in Florida this week...]

I have fallen into the trap that so many quilters do: I am forever working on quilts for someone else.  New babies, family members who need a special gift, a commissioned quilt for a friend, and not to mention the bee blocks.  All of the quilts that I have swimming around in my head that I simply want to do seem to get pushed to the back of the to-do list.  I’m trying to integrate some of those designs and colors and ideas into the “have-to” quilts.  And, of course, I only “have to” make them because I’ve said so. I do enjoy making them, otherwise I wouldn’t do it at all.

But there’s something refreshing about making something simply because I want to.  There is no intended recipient, no deadline.  I showed these blocks to my husband, and when he asked “so what are these for?”, I was pleased to reply “for fun!”

I’m making these along with the P.S. I Quilt Pinwheel Sampler Quilt-Along. What can I say? I can’t resist a good quilt-along.

I’m going with mostly stash fabrics (though I admit to buying a few more to add to said stash).  I’m using raspberry/fuchsia, orange, pink, and aqua, with gray (Kona Ash) as the background color.  So far, two weeks completed, I’m loving it.

Hopefully this will turn out as nice in reality as it looks in my head.