Mindful May

 

I'm being cautious calling it Mindful May, because who knows? May just might turn out to be marvelous, magical or majestic, etc. I am not dwelling on other more negative possibilities, at least for now, because it's May! The month of go outside and smell the roses and plant things and start watering and maybe do some dyeing because it's warmer.

For the monthly marker photo, I knew I wanted to use this dramatic shadow photo I took at the bamq retreat. My initial use of this photo was to pair it with one of the many flower pictures I took in April.

But once I got this result in Percolator, which I really really loved the graphic/cartoon look, nothing really combined well. So, for the first time in a while, my monthly marker is only one photo instead of two combined.

Here's my 30 seconds of 1SE, One Second Every Day for April in a short video.

 Monthly I-Did-It List for APRIL

1. I kept up with 100 Days project of sewing 9" of Scrap Tape per day through the month.

2.  I made more Pantone Project blocks and gave them to friend Jaye.

3. I did some more hand stitching on Snake In The Garden.

4. I did some more hand stitching around my Kawandii at Sew Day.

5. I sewed together the September column for the Temperature Quilt.

6.  I designed a quilt in EQ8 for the bamq exhibit at the San Mateo County Fair,  paper pieced the four blocks, layered, free-assembled into a top, free motion quilted and then entered the quilt.

7.  I packed up for the BAMQ retreat, helped with some of the work of the event, and  enjoyed getting a lot of work done.

8. I paper pieced another Y.E.S. for the Y.E.S. coat.

9. I got most of the City Sampler blocks assembled into a top but ran out of sashing material.

10. I made the rest of the blocks for the 5x5 quilt.

I went to the BAMQ retreat and did some family and friends visiting stuff.  I continued going to PT for my knee with no improvement and got knee surgery scheduled for May.

I attended several online CST lectures and groups, attended a BAMQ sew day, blogged here 30/30 days woot!, I  instagrammed 5 times,  threaded 14 times, facebooked 0 times and Blue-sky-ed 11 times. 

This month was definitely a productive one given the work and travel of the retreat.