April Goals - Thinking Pink!

Today's quilting journey is brought to you by the Letter P. P for Pink and P for Pissed off Puppy! This is not the face of innocence. This is the face of someone who happily shredded the batting and backing of a freshly pinned quilt.  Thankfully Gus caught him in the act and rescued the quilt before any real damage was done (he spared the top) to the quilt or to the puppy. I can't be certain he won't poop out a pinmoor or two, but no pins are in the puppy, nor is any batting as he left the shreds in the crate with him.  I'm not entirely certain how his crate got moved forward. It is tucked under my cutting table, and I was careless and didn't notice that it was out farther than normal which allowed him to grab a bit of quilt backing and pull in in to pounce on it. But enough on the world's cutest puppy. Here are my goals for April.

One Monthly Goal & Rainbow Scrap Challenge

This month, my monthly goal is a new start, or a new to 2022 start. I pieced the Rose Chandelier quilt in March. My goal is to finish it and gift it at a baby shower later this month. I find that having hard deadlines helps me to meet these goals. 

The  pinks came out of my stash, some of them from my 'what was i thinking stack' and several scraps from last year's foray into pink. Speaking of, I won't be working on my City Sampler Modern Quilt Blocks this month as I have a set in pink. I will be making a Pink Penguin sometime this month.

This should be an easy finish for me as I'm about halfway through quilting the background now. Thankfully Savvy's assistance only ripped parts that will be trimmed off at the end. He did thin some of the batting along one edge, so I tucked some thinned batting over the parts he thinned to repair it.

I found a glorious batik for the backing!

PHD in 2022

A secondary goal for the month is to work on piecing my son's Camo Quilt.  The pattern is Pecking Order from Missouri Star Quilt Company. 

I've been using this as a leader/ender project this year which has solved some of the tedium of adding endless corners to the so-called 6 inch blocks. So-called because when I started cutting them at a Bee Retreat in 2019, I somehow cut them 6 x 5 7/8. But as I can't seem to sew a corner on straight to save my life, I've been gradually trimming them back to 5 3/4 x 5 3/4.  I've been pressing and trimming in batches while on zoom calls with my family - which definitely helps me get past the tedium of the trimming.  I have 32 corners left to add/trim/press and then I can start the process of randomly pairing green and brown blocks together as I piece the rows of the quilt. I found a great camouflage back for this and will use some of the National Parks map fabric for the borders. Gus's request was for a Camo themed quilt, and I think this will meet that goal.

Ravelry UFO Challenge & Table Scraps

I've nominated 9 projects for the quarterly Ravelry UFO Challenge: 

1. Rose Chandelier
2. Gus's Camo Quilt
3. Coastal Pearls
4. Sandy Breeze
5. Country Lanes Runner
6. Daisy Top
7. Celestial Circles
8. Dr. Seuss Log Cabin
9. Dash 

I'll be happy with two to three finishes (most of these are on my PHD in 2022 list). One should be assured - I'm all about the low hanging fruit!

Table Scraps this month incorporates words, so this will be a good month to create a new nametag for myself!

Linking to:

Rainbow Scrap Challenge - Hosted by So Scrappy

One Monthly Goal - April Goals Hosted by Elm Street Quilts