Quilty Goals for Summer 2025

Y’all, 2025 has just been a doozy thus far, hasn’t it? Life is swinging between happy, fun times and chaotic, tumultuous times — and frankly, sometimes it’s all happening at once. I have been mostly focused on taking things a day or a week at a time, and fortunately I’ve been able to find periodic calming moments to spend time on fun quilty things.

First, a wrap-up of my goals for spring:

• Catch up — and stay current — with Quilts Unscripted Bee blocks. Partially done! I caught up (here’s November, January, February, March, and April) but then Maycember hit and I fell behind again.
• Wrap up this year’s Pantone Quilt Challenge. Done!
• Update/re-release Quarter Moon pattern. Done!
• The “maybe” list:
  • Write Diamond Flip pattern. Nope.
  • Finish 1 UFO. Done — I finished not one but two!
  • Design and create a stitchable pantograph. Sigh, nope.
• Also done:
  • Made a last-minute Pantone challenge quilt top.
  • Made a t-shirt quilt for our dear neighbors who moved away.
  • Made two blocks for group quilts. (Here’s one, the other is a secret for now.)
  • Worked on this piece as part of a 2025 blackwork embroidery stitch along.

Looking ahead, I’m going to stick with having a list of goals plus a list of “maybe” projects — the stuff I’d like to do if/when time (and mood and energy level) allows.

So, for July-September…

• Catch up — and stay current — with Quilts Unscripted Bee blocks. May through September — just five blocks! Let’s do this, self.
• Finish the star quilt I started in 2021. This is on my 2025 UFO list, and I’d like to enter it in QuiltCon.
• Write Diamond Flip pattern. This was in my plan for earlier this year, but Quarter Moon ended up jumping ahead in the queue.
• The “maybe” list:
  • Design and create a stitchable pantograph. Again.
  • Make a quilt for this year’s QuiltCon fabric challenge. Always my favorite category!

C’mon summer, let’s chill…