Easter has come and gone and once again, I feel like I am not getting much done.

 I think my marathon quilting session in March must have burned me out because so far, 10 days into April, I seem to accomplished very little.  Although, I will admit, that I have been tidying and organizing and spending far too much reading blogs and going down the Pinterest rabbit hole.  That of course means that I have far more ideas than time left in my life to accomplish what looks like a fun or great use of fabric. 

So, what has been accomplished? Morning tennis whenever we have dry or almost dry courts and many days have been lucky although still having wear lots of layers because it isn't very warm.  

I made this mug rug for Easter... cute little bunny.

This is a cat quilt made for a couple of cat lovers in my life.  I used as many cat fabrics as I had in my stash and it looks a bit busy, but I wanted to get them all in there.

A close up of some of the fabrics.

After my quilting marathon in March, I ONLY have 5 tops waiting on hangers. 

This top was pieced by Penny and I quilted it.  A great way to use up a Canadian flag panel. This is for Quilts of Valour.

This is a "yippee" quilt.  It was this past season's mystery quilt and it was pointed out to me that it is very retro with harvest green and golds in there.  I really like Meadowland mysteries.  She does a great job in her instructions and her blocks are easy to make every month.

So far in April, I have my RSC blue blocks.  I know we were supposed to use only dark and bright blues, but I dug into both my light and dark containers and I might skip the month of light blues?

This is my PBJ block for April: cherries.   Notice that I have an oops in the bottom edge with too much of the selvedge showing and it won't all get caught in the seam allowance. 

Fixed!  I used a red fabric felt pen and coloured the selvedge so it will not be noticeable when the block gets pieced into a quilt. 

I did cut a few hug blocks for my local guild members if they want to make a few blocks and contribute to the hug block campaign by Quilts of Valour.  It is really hard to find these fabrics in BC quilt shops but I am searching and having a bit of success.  I usually order from a shop in NL - Clothesline quilts and have really good service from her.  I also cut up some of my fabric into fat eighths and some sixteenths as well if someone wants a bit of fabric to use in their blocks or quilts.  And, I have the moose, trees and bears with fusible on the back if anyone local wants some of those for their blocks.  Easy to peel off the paper and fuse on with your iron. 

And that is all for the first 10 days of the month but I have a long list of what I would like to get done in the next 3 weeks. 

1. Quilt the next 5 quilt tops 

2. Make a jelly roll quilt for the Heartstrings April challenge

3. Work on cutting some 3/5 yard quilts, also a challenge from my Heartstrings group but have until June to accomplish stitching them into quilts.  I ordered a couple of the books with the patterns and they just arrived so will start pulling fabrics and cutting some kits for myself. 

4. Make a pattern from Mary's website - one more challenge from the Heartstrings group.  They figured out that if you made one of her patterns per month, you would be busy for 9 years!  I am cutting the hearts using my accuquilt and will make her wonky heart log cabins from them.  

5. Would love to work on my t-shirt quilt.  The bin of t-shirts is constantly being moved and it is becoming annoying.  

6. Start making some preemie quilts for the local NICU at our hospital. 

7. Polka dot quilt using fabrics set aside

8. finish the 'field day' that I started at retreat in early March 

A short list but not sure how much will get done between now and the end of the month.  I keep getting sidetracked by new ideas and projects.