Tuesday, September 26, 2017
I finally made it back to the Guild bee and I lasted the entire day. I didn’t sew the entire time (I worked on the Library after lunch) but at least I stayed until the end. I’m tired tonight but, hopefully, my Tuesday’s will again be spent sewing. Once we have our next Guild meeting I’ll have two monthly challenges to complete so I need to make my Tuesdays count. Today we were celebrating the 80th birthday of one of our members; I made a card for her yesterday afternoon but neglected to take a photo. This shot is from one I took of all of Marlene’s cards for the Guild blog.
I was working on a couple of cards today and it didn’t go as well as I would have liked. I was trying to place some appliqué pieces on a background but, because of the colour of the fabric, I couldn’t see the pattern lines for placement. I tried a different background which worked better, but as I was placing the pieces I realized that the pattern should have been reversed. Once I realized that I gave up and did my own design on the card tops.
Pat will be going back to Texada tonight on the 6 PM ferry. We will be getting the new oil tank filled tomorrow and they will also fix the line so we will have heat over there again. He is also hoping that the Internet folks will come by this week; we have a coffee shop that offers free wi-fi so we aren’t completely cut off. He’ll also be putting up more of his sound proofing panels; at some point many of my quilts are going to be covering those panels.
My intention for the rest of the week is to get started on cleaning for the House Concert coming up on Monday. Between my surgery and all the sorting out of furniture and other stuff into piles the cleaning had more or less stopped. The first House Concert is always a good excuse for some deep cleaning after the summer. We have a (more than) sold out show and since we’ve taken a few of our chairs away we may be scrambling for seats for everyone.
I have a couple of things to get ready for the mail tomorrow so I’ll get those wrapped up tonight.