April - what's coming and Pre Scrub Stitchin Retreat ....

 

Soooo much going on! First of all - I've been playing along with a group on Ravelry called "The Harry Potter Knitting and Crochet House Cup" which has lots and lots of various things going on to get you motivated into making various projects and not just Knitting and Crochet - it also allows for sewing, beading, and sooo many other crafts - all put together into various little challenges which win "pretend points" for your house.  Anyhow - its definitely helped with my crafting mojo over "the term" - January, February and March.  I've decided to take a photo of all the projects made during the term and I'm surprised by just how much I've achieved over the past 3 months!  Here is the "group" photo .... alas they had all gone to various places when I realised the sewing wrap from Srub Stitchin last year had fogotten to jump into the photo - so here it is in its own photo to be be included in the 3 months of crafting.  It was a tricky photo given I had to get in the crocheted curtain hanging above and the very large doggy cushion to the side! 

Speaking of the large Doggo Cushion ........ the Chookshed Number for April is ......

You guessed it ..... the Dog Cushion which has already been made and sewn up!  Therefore I decided to get to work on the travel quilt that was briefly mentioned on my last post!  It's been a battle to get it completed before we leave in just 2 sleeps ......... I still had to re position all the blocks and then cut more of ...... well, basically everything as I needed the quilt to be able to fit a QS bed for when Pete & I go away ......... and I had to use what I had on hand as no time to go to another town looking for fabrics to match up ...... plus I really, really want to use up alot of my stash this year!!!  I had to go looking for the photos from last Scrub Stitchin to find the quilt Janice had made so I could work out what my initial plan had been all those months ago ............

using stuff I have here ...... Well, ... this included some Queen size batting in the old polyester foam type which has been hanging around since the days at Bundalong! And so it began .........

Thankfully due to a zoom session last weekend I was able to work on machine quilting it with my little trusty Janome and then get the binding cut and finished sewing it down last night!  Phew! Finished in time to take away.  Only 1 sleep to go and Christine arrives here tomorrow and then the next morning we begin our road trip!!!  I'm soooooo excited to heading back to Baradine to meet up with all the girls again!  Everything is ready and Tilly has her bag packed ready for the car trip!