Hopeful Lovely Finish for April

Here's the fabric I hope to use to make the bird block for Block Lotto in April:

This will be the first time I make one for them and join in the Block Lotto.  Last month 266 blocks were made and there were six winners.  That's a lot of blocks!  You can read about it here.  It's a bit of a funky block this month and I'm happy about that.  I like to try new blocks.

This will be hopefully my Lovely Finish for April.  Visit them here to see how you could participate in their incentive to finish challenge.

Getting it Done in March

Well I didn't do so good in March with my goals - only got one done and that was: Start my DGD's quilt now that I found a pattern. Begun!  You can see my progress here.

For the other two - I have just set them aside for now as I really, really need to quilt a few charity quilts for St. Anne's.

 

So here are my April Getting it Done goals:

1. Quilt some St. Anne's quilts before the 11th. (Technically these are ufos as they've been sitting around for a couple of month and will be my entry for the April Nothing but UFOs challenge)
2. Start the Whimsical Garden Quilt - complete at least one block.
3. Make the block lotto block for April.

 

How did you do?  Go on over and see how others did at Judy's Patchwork Times.

March NewFO

It's amazing what 2 hours of uninterrupted sewing time can do. I was able to do the first step for all 20 pinwheel blocks, sew three of them together and size, cut and place into sets the 160 squares I need for the 17 remaining d9ps:


Here's the pinwheel blocks, the stack of 5"sets, and the sections done with the next one to assemble.



I learned two things doing these.  1.  Making the pinwheels from 5" squares, I could true these up to  5 1/2" pinwheel, saved a second truing up, and cut the squares 5 1/2" instead of 5" and had a bigger quilt.  2.  I'm going to not assemble the d9p's 4 parts until the end so that I can more evenly distribute the colors.

I'm linking to Barb's NewFO Challenge as this is my new project started in March, and Judy's Patchwork Times, as well as Lyn's BOMs Away.  Go see all the projects coming along.