Thursday, February 24, 2024

I’m enjoying my week at the studio. The sun has shone almost every day but it is still on the cool side. We got out and walked the nature trail one day and we went out for lunch on Valentine’s Day – there are no restaurants open in the evenings here.

I’ve managed to get quite a bit of work done. My Stash Buster blocks have been put together into a quilt top. I’ll add a border when I get home and then wait for a sunny and warm day to sandwich it on the back deck. I needed to work out some measurements for my Alias Grace blocks and I think I have a plan now. It works on paper anyway.

I’ve been working on the grad gift the last couple of days. Still lots to do but it is going well. I finished my huge book in time to get it onto the library bin at the post office here. I’ll finish the second book tonight. I have one more library book to start so I won’t need to dig into the bookshelf here on this trip.

We’ll be heading home on Sunday but that still leaves lots of relaxation time.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

It seems every day this week I’ve been working a day ahead.

• On Monday I was getting ready for Tuesday’s sewing.
• On Tuesday I was getting ready for today’s session of coffee with Gail.
• This morning I was getting ready for two days of sewing with Stacia and Deloise.

But what I’m most looking forward to is our week on Texada.

Tuesday, February 6, 2023

I was off to the Guild this morning and didn’t come upstairs to my desk. But when I got to it this afternoon the first thing I did was turn over my Quilters’ Block-a-Day calendar. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

Do you recall the Alias Grace block I had so much trouble with when I was putting it together from only a picture? Today’s block of the day was Solomon’s Temple, the very block I struggled so hard to get right that I had to redo it a couple of times.

It never occurred to me to look at the blocks on the calendar. Very few of them are traditional blocks but if I’m ever stumped again I’ll look there first.

Monday, February 5, 2024

I have some things on the go that need to be done by a certain time. They aren’t necessarily a hard and fast deadline but there is some urgency to getting them done.

I just started my next book from the library and it is due back on the 16th. That means I need to read about 100 pages a day. I spent an hour reading after lunch and made it through 50 pages. If my calculations are right it will take me about 19 more hours to finish. It’s a good thing I’m enjoying the story so far and that we’ll be going to Texada next week.

I started a blackwork project that I’ll be using as a graduation gift. The pattern is from last year’s weekly stitch-along so I knew there were 52 sections. Before I started I calculated that if I did one pattern a week I could be done by the end of March. That would give plenty of time to allow for framing. What I didn’t add into my calculations was the time it will take for the borders. The particular setting I chose has two borders and they aren’t small or uncomplicated. Again, good thing we’re heading across to the studio.

If my calculations don’t work out I can always hope that I can renew my library book. And it wouldn’t be the first time a graduation gift was late – right Kathryn?