Sunday, March 3, 2019

I’ve become a different person since finishing my quilt show projects.

Yesterday morning I started organizing my sewing room. I want to separate all my “in progress” projects from the “waiting to start” projects. I’m following two UFO challenges and there are a few Guild projects that I need to catch up on but since I didn’t feel at all like sewing, doing some organization felt like progress. I’ve signed up for a Decluttering and Organizing workshop at the Library later this month – maybe I should hold off to see if I learn some better techniques from that.

I was scheduled to sell Quilt Show raffle tickets yesterday for a couple of hours. We were selling in the coldest spot in town (Quality Foods) so a two-hour shift is more than enough. But the next volunteers didn’t show up as they were supposed to. I called the organizer and she told me who to call. Both women had forgotten; one was from south of town and wouldn’t make it until the next two hours were almost finished but the other one came right away. Since the person I was selling with was a friend of a quilter and not even in the Guild I thought it was only right that she go home and I stayed on for another two hours.

I was barely home and warm when it was time to go out for dinner. One of our Indian restaurants is having a month-long series of set menus and last night was the first one. They are calling it a Taste of India and the menu will take us through four seasons of Indian food. The food is always good and the things I don’t like I can easily pass to Pat.

I don’t do the cooking in our home – Pat cooks and grocery shops and I do the dishes, cleaning and laundry. After my ticket selling was over yesterday I did the shopping and this morning I cooked and did the laundry. I wanted to make the soup that I had prepared for our mini quilting retreat in January. The recipe calls for it to be done in the crock pot but I did it on top of the stove so it was ready for lunch. Just as good this time around.

And if my making lunch wasn’t odd enough I baked a cake this morning as well. It was a recipe I saw online – very easy to make – and although it was barely cool we had a piece for lunch and it was yummy. Could probably be improved on with ice cream but we didn’t have any.

I should get back to more organizing but I think I’m going to head down to my knitting. I’m almost ready to change colours on my project and I can hardly wait to see what it looks like after I’ve done that.