Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Pat and I have chatted about why it is I get so much done at the studio on Texada and not when I’m in my studio here at home. He suggested I try to do all my “running around” on one day of the week. Another suggestion was to see a project through from start to finish. Doing the running around after the sewing bee seemed like a good way to start particularly because I had to get a parcel sent off in the mail today. I didn’t really have anything else to do but banking and most other things could be added to the end of a sewing day. I’ve tried the “one project” idea a few times but it seems there is always something else creeping into the schedule.

I took two projects to the bee today. I have a quilt that needs the binding done; I wanted to make a pieced binding so I took my strips with me. I need over 300″ and I thought it would take a lot longer to get that much done than it did. I wished that I had taken the quilt with me so I could stitch the binding on to it. I moved on to my second project before lunch. I’m making some rail fence blocks for another Community Quilt. I got 31 more blocks finished and that is certainly enough to get the centre of the quilt done. Both of these quilts are scrap projects – how is it that I never run out of scraps?

I was quite proud of myself for all I accomplished today and I anticipated having several days at home. But when I checked the mail one of my cards came back with “Insufficient Postage”. I took all my packages to the Post Office and I’m not sure why they didn’t weigh them properly; I just hope that the rest of them don’t start coming back. I’ll have to go out again tomorrow and sort out the postage – there’s always something to interrupt a perfectly planned schedule!

I’m going to try and get the binding stitched onto the quilt before supper. It would be lovely to have it finished before Christmas.