Trees on the design wall

Hi all!  Has anyone else noticed that it's now April? Holy cow! I know I say this all the time, but this is just going way too fast.  Wasn't Valentine's Day last week? Then again, I still think 2014 was last year or so. Impossible that it was five years ago now.

Here is the happiest thing about the fact that it's now April:

Yes! The daffodils are blooming in Delaware! I saw these as I left the house, and it was such a nice start to the day.  Some of the day lilies are a couple of inches high, too.

So, what are you making now that it's spring?  This week I started a new donation quilt for the Hands to Help challenge.  I'm pretty sure that this will be my last one for this year's challenge. Here's the beginning of it:

Trees!  I did not make any of these blocks. I adopted them from Jennifer, who blogs at life's little adventures, through Cynthia's quilty adoption event at Quilting is More Fun Than Housework.  I have been meaning and meaning to give up a project for adoption to someone who would finish it, but I always get too busy and miss the event.  Maybe I should just do it here? What do you think?

I received 26 of these blocks in some kind of nifty fabrics, including this one:

A quilting cotton that I would swear is a sweater! It's so realistic that I keep having to look twice.  Jennifer intended this as a Christmas quilt, so I took out six blocks that were very Christmassy and was left with 20 blocks that are somewhat wintery but don't really read as Christmas.  I chose a soft sage green polka dot to use as a sashing:

Green goes with everything, and I think this fabric is pretty and also calms down some of the colors in the quilt.  I'll add a border too, and that should make a decent- sized donation quilt top.  I even have a plan for those leftover six blocks, but not in this quilt.

So, there's one thing I'm working on this week, but I'm also thinking that I'm going to make a quilt for the Pantone Challenge from Bryan House Quilts and No Hats in the House.  I have the sampler that I've been working on, of course, and there are a lot of different corals in there, but check out this fabric:

It's hard to capture with this camera (I'm shopping for a new one, I swear!), but this fabric is pretty much the exact color of Living Coral! I have a couple yards of it, and I thought I might put it with a pale aqua.  I was thinking about a Kona solid, but then I pulled out a print and I'm thinking I might use that instead:

With a green of some kind and a white background, it could be pretty snappy! I have no pattern for this, but I'm trying to come up with something. It's pretty fun to page through the block books and dream, at least for me.  I guess I'll see what I find before I decide for sure. It's pretty fabric, though, and even without the challenge it will make a lovely quilt.

So that's the update from here. I hope you're all having a good week with lots of color and sewing.  And spring flowers, too!

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