To Do Tuesday: Finally Back To the Blog and Some Plans for April

Hello April!  March had started off with the need to finish off some things from the start of the year but I was soon completely waylaid!  The things I had to give priority attention to this past month were:  

• a really unexpected death in the family 
• a new health issue that is in the early stages of establishing a treatment plan 
• embarking on a huge bit of Spring cleaning and organizing
• my community garden scheduling weekend work days to prepare us for our Earth Day season opening at the end of this month 

All of which took time completely away from doing any quilting or cross stitch for the past few weeks. 

In January,  I said that linking up to Carol's weekly "To Do Tuesday" on her blog Quilt Schmilt had been keeping me accountable as this year started.  That turned out to be famous last words!  While I did finish up some quilts in February while away visiting my MIL (and her longarm, LOL!), the ones on my last "To Do Tuesday" list at the end of January still need to be dealt with.  So with a new month just underway, my hope is that those are the tasks I can get done this week.   

I had started the year by trying to focus on finishing up quilts that will be gifted to the members of my community garden's Steering Committee.

1.   Layer, baste and quilt the Committee quilt top (the second of three) made in January. 

After deciding to use a Twin size cotton batting I had on hand to layer this quilt,  I did finally get the quilt basted in early March but the quilting of it has sat since then.  I already had a plan for how I wanted to quilt it, so now's the time to gather my courage and commence with it!     

2.  In my last TDT post, I had finished the top and needed to sew together the backing and make a "Franken-batt" for the thrid Committee quilt.  

That backing is done but the batting isn't!  The plan still is to use the batting cutoffs from the first quilt to start a "Franken-batt" for this one by adding scraps of the same batting to create a big enough batt.  I hope to sew that all together once I finish quilting the other one.

From my experience in previous "To Do" weeks, I'm going to stop here and consider finishing these two quilts enough to have on my project plate for right now!  

Oh wait, I will add a bit of cross stitch to that!  In a cross stitch update in early March,  I had talked about possibly starting this project:

As you can see here, I did get it started...

...but then the month exploded with all the life "To Do" things so it has been set aside ever since.  Now that things have calmed down a bit,  I am hoping to be able to set aside a little time each day to continue work on it.

 

So with that I hope you'll join me in returning to Carol's at Quilt Schmilt to see what every one else has put on their list of things to tackle for for this week!