Sunday, August 19, 2018

The smoke rolled in again last night and even with the doors and windows shut it smells like smoke in the house. I had a very slow start to the day because I couldn’t get my nose to stop running; I don’t know if the smoke was making my allergies worse or if it is the start of a cold. I’m hoping it was just allergies.

I’ve decided that Sundays will be my Splendid Sampler day and, if there is time, I’ll work on my cards. It has proven to be useful to have a Tuesday and a Thursday project so by having a day devoted to weekly blocks and cards I may be able to keep up. I was only one block behind in the Splendid Sampler 2 series so I planned to get a lot done today – maybe a block from Splendid Sampler (the original) and a couple of cards.

It took longer than I thought it would to do my one Splendid Sampler block; I couldn’t understand how the pattern was going to work out until the final piece was put in place. I was piecing together squares and rectangles, but they were somehow to end up as circles. There was hand stitching involved as well so that takes a bit of extra time. Mission accomplished though.

I had a book in at the Library so I walked up to pick it up. I was hoping to stop and have a London Fog tea when I was there but the little concession was closed. So while I cooled down from the first half of my walk I picked up a second book. When I got home I decided I should finish the book I was currently reading since I had two more in the line-up. It didn’t take long as my Kindle announced it would only be about half an hour of reading – just enough time to cool down from my walk home.

I’m back upstairs now and I’ll work on an original Splendid Sampler block and see if I can get a card started as well. If I’m successful it will mean I’ve done no tidying up!