My April Wishes

Better late than never, here are my wishes for the month of April.

April will definitely not be as productive as March, as we will be away at Baradine, and once we return home I will be assisting with the set up of the pavilion exhibits for the Bathurst Show, to be held on the first weekend of May.  Therefore, after Baradine, I won’t get a lot done.

Firstly, my stitching wishes.  Most of this is for Scrub Stitchin’ at Baradine.  You will see I am being over ambitious, but what if I ran out of projects?!  As if. LOL

MY MAIN MONTHLY GOAL

This month my main goal is to have all the batik fish appliqué stitched down on the final ten blocks.  This should be doable at Scrub Stitchin’.  It would be nice to have the quilt top complete, but that is not terribly likely.  We’ll see.

RAINBOW SCRAP CHALLENGE

The colour this month is pink.  I already have my pink crumb blocks completed from a couple of years ago.  However, I have now prepped the shadow section of the blocks and hope to have them attached to the completed crumb blocks at Baradine and then keep up to date with them each month going forward.

The potato chip block and cross blocks are packed to take to Baradine.  They will be good leader and enders.

SCRUB STITCHIN’ PREP

There are a few other projects prepped to take to Baradine.

Firstly, the solid fat quarter quilt.

And, as of a couple of days ago, Chooky announced a stitch along, if we wish to join in.  Of course I do.

The quilt is Simply Serene.  

I will be making mine a bit smaller than the pattern, as a donation quilt for a male.  You don’t seem to get as many masculine quilts, so this should fit the bill.

I also have some hexies packed, but I doubt I will get to them, given all of the above projects.

There are a few Bonnie Lass pairs for leader and enders, but I think that my other projects will already be quite enough.  Once again, I’d hate to run out.

ELLY MAY

Elly May needs to be cleaned and put to bed after completing the last quilt.  I don’t think she will get a run this month…..but you never know what may happen.

KNITTING AND CROCHET

I have my Corner to Corner crochet rug on the go, which is an easy one to pick up.

And…. now I am ready to start my new knitting project.  It is a the Long Paddock Jumper.  

The yarn I am going to use is a baby alpaca that I bought at the Nundle Woollen Mill.  The yarn is from Peru and they dye it at Nundle.

I’ve just done a tension swatch at this stage.  I had to go up a needle size to get the correct tension and it is lovely and soft to work with.  Once again, I don’t expect to get much, if any done this month, but it is ready to go.

STITCHING DAYS

As I will only be able to attend a couple this month I don’t think I’ll get much done.  We’ll just go with the flow.

15 MINUTES A DAY

I will still try to keep getting a little done each day.  It all adds up.

NON STITCHING WISHES

1.     Try a new recipe.  We still have to eat, so I will see what I can do.

2.    Read a book.  We’ll see.  If so, it will probably be an audio book.

3.    Help set up at the show.  I am a steward in the Needlework section.  I think I will be buzzing around for most of the lead up, helping wherever needed.

It will be interesting to pop back at the end of the month and see how it all went.