Sunday Stitchers - UFO Challenge - #1 - Token Quilt

My project for the month of April was "Token Quilt - Progress", and that is what I started with at the beginning of my Claytons Scrub Stitchin' retreat....Over the days I worked on it, I realised it was going to be difficult to take a pile of pieced or stitched blocks and show "progress', so I aimed to finish the top.

It looks a bit wishy-washy here -
it is more colourful in real life.
The fabrics are Spring Fever & Spring Fling
by Me & My Sister with a few extras thrown in.

Why is it my "token" quilt???
Well, it is predominantly made up of various bits that I have made as a token to my enabling friends when they though I needed to make something they were making . . . .I am not one to not join in . . but there is a limit as to how much I can do and what I do with it when done.

Back in the Covid days (2020) - a group of designers gave out some designs for a project called "Love & Hugs Australia".  I stitched a number of them to coordinate with some fabrics I had - but had no real plan.
Then Scrub Stitchin' 2023 happened and Chooky proposed a pattern from Moda (Moda-Love-Layer-Cake-Quilt") - so I used those fabrics.
In March 2023, my "enabling" friends decided I should make a Sparrow quilt....I conceded and made 3 blocks - using the fabrics.   These "enabling" friends also thought I should make Antique Sampler...no thanks, not at all interested. . . .but I did take two of the EPP shapes and stitched a circle around them instead of the background being a fabric piece with the circle cut out.

I was getting close to having enough pieces to make a top . . .I drafted a design...mmm...not really working...I re-drafted it ...ugh...still not happy . . .I needed 2 more 6" pieces on all four sides...plain fabric didn't appeal . . .then - as my self imposed deadline was approaching....(pressure pressure) I figured I could add some 3 and 2 inch strips . . .

The trees are there because I like trees and had the pattern . . .

Notes:
Threads used - Solids
DMC Blanc, 03,155,317,451,518,603,647,720,798,822,838,840,988,3860,3861
Variegated
DMC 4050,4126,4502,4508.  Cosmo 8008,8055,8056 Anchor 1304,1305,1345.
Cascade House 7355,9325.  Jennifer Gail Lavendar.  Colour Streams Water Nymphs.

Bonus FNWF - May

Cheryll is hosting bonus FNWFs..so once again I joined in the cyber group.

It was an Odds & Sods / Bits & Bobs night

I finished the hand sewing on some binding, some crocheting and some stitchery...all whilst watching the square box - the usual BH&G and a George Clooney movie .

Hope everyone is doing OK - restrictions are easing up in Queensland and a lot of people will be out & about visiting mums on Mothers Day.  Hopefully the general population will take it easy and be sensible.

Happy Sewing & thanks Cheryll