Where does time go? It whizzes by impossibly fast. Here it is already time to take a look at  what I accomplished (or didn’t) this past month. My April goals:

1. First off is to finish the last QOV top that I have at home. I  hope to have this one done this week. DONE! And I quilted 7 more tops for the Stitching Sisters group. Here they are all in one place for my own records. Scroll on by since you have already seen them!

2. I want to make 6 more Sawtooth Star blocks. This feels like a winter quilt to me so I may end up putting it away instead! Done! And I did put it away for a while after that!

3. 25 more City Sampler blocks. Done! Actually, I only made 23 more blocks but I finished the entire quilt!

4. 13  4″ paper pieced blocks. Ideally, I would like to have this pieced, quilted, and finished. But I will settle for just having the blocks done. Not done. I made a few.

5. I have a lovely FQ bundle of Betty Dear fabrics given to me by Daughter #1 for Christmas. They just say spring to me! And I have a couple ideas of how I want to use them. First, for my plan to work, I need to find coordinating solids. So for this month, I really just want to get the fabric in hand and pieces cut. This will be a large quilt. Not done. I have the red and white that I need but not the yellow or blue and no cutting has been done.

6. Quilt the Metropolitan Fair Churn Dash quilt. I have been putting this on my list forever. It is time to just make a decision on the quilting and get it done already! Still not done.

So what else did I get done this month?

A small quilt for my coffee table.

A small quilt made from vintage  fabrics.

The April challenge quilt for the Small Quilt Talk group.

And now some goals for May.

1. The SQT group challenge for the Month is to make a Log Cabin quilt. I think that makes it a perfect time to finally finish these 4″ blocks and make the quilt already!

2.  I also signed up for the small quilt swap being hosted by Lori over at Humble Quilts  so I need to get something made for that. I have been toying with a few ideas and made a few HSTs before work yesterday morning.

3. I want to get this Quilt of Valor completely finished. I have a recipient in mind and time is of the essence!

3. I would like to make a baby quilt for a gift from this fabric. If I run out of time, I have another baby quilt already made that I can give.

4. In pondering the SQT Log Cabin challenge, I remembered this vintage top that Mr. Wonderful gave me for Christmas in 2013. I would love to quilt this up this month as well.

5. I also have these lovely Amy Butler strips patiently waiting to be pieced into blocks.

 6. I signed up to do a Pay It Forward gift on Instagram. I would like to get those packages together and sent this month as well.

Instagram is a fun way to follow quilters. It takes less time than reading blogs as you are just scrolling through pictures with only a line or two of text to go with them. Daughter #2 suggested to me last summer to have a separate IG account just for quilting and it was a fabulous idea! Until then, I really only used it for family and I keep that IG account private. But my quilting IG account is public and I have found so much inspiration there. My user name there is katyquilts if you would like to follow me. I try not to post the exact same things on both my blog and IG. IG shows more “in progress” quilts.

Linking up with Lily’s Quilts for Fresh Sewing Day and Sew Can She for Show Off Saturday.