Sunday, March 10, 2019

Due to the time change yesterday the day has passed quickly but I’ve been moving slowly through it.

I spent some time this morning cleaning in preparation for the House Concert on Tuesday. Pat and I chatted about the work I still need to do for the quilt show and decided it was probably better if I didn’t go across to Texada for the House Concert over there. That will allow me to get the door prize baskets ready Wednesday afternoon and I’ll have another task I can cross off the list.

I watched the noon ferry from Texada coming across and thought Pat might be on it but he’s decided to stay another day so he could go to the Trivia Meat Draw this afternoon. We’ll go grocery shopping in the morning; one of the performers is celiac so we’ll have to spend some time figuring out what we’ll do for meals.

I spent the afternoon cutting fabric in preparation for Tuesday’s sewing. The Splendid Sampler 2 is one of my UFO Challenges for this month and I haven’t worked on it yet. I have four blocks cut out and, hopefully, I can get at least a few of them done.

March 9, 2019

I think I need to get back to some sewing. This morning while I wasted time looking at Facebook I found a pattern I really liked. I found the book on Amazon and ordered it.

Again, while on Facebook I saw a book that I had on my To Read list. I checked the library and they had it on the shelf. This afternoon I walked up to the library and picked it up, as well as another Shetland mystery by Ann Cleaves.

And while I was on my iPad I saw a new fabric line called Limoncello. We discovered limoncello when we went to Italy and it is a staple in our booze cupboard. So I ordered a jelly roll of the line, along with a new marking product I learned about at the Guild meeting the other night.

If I had a project that had a deadline I wouldn’t be wasting my time like this.

To make up for a little of that lost time I’m going to start sorting my door prizes into piles and see how many baskets I can put together. Trying to make them of a similar value is going to be tricky.

Friday, March 8, 2019

Thursday morning I continued with my organization and clean-up. I’m not done yet but I’m making progress. In fact I’ve made as much progress as I can until I make a few more storage decisions (I’m thinking a bigger room!).

Thursday afternoon I was sewing with the group. I’m using one of my UFO Challenges as my Thursday project. It was a start I made at the Texada Retreat in November. I had the centre medallion finished but I wasn’t happy with a couple of my points so I pinned it to my design wall. In the past couple of months I’ve looked at it while I’m sitting in the chair and chatting on the phone. Not long ago I realized I had one block turned the wrong way. I got the medallion taken apart and fixed and moved on to the next step of the mystery. It really isn’t a mystery any longer because the final results were released in November. My advantage is I can see all the photos of the finished projects and I can make adjustments if I think they are necessary.

I barely had time to get home and have supper before heading out again for the Guild meetings. These were the last meetings before the show so there were a lot of details that needed to be ironed out. The good news is that I didn’t come home with any additional tasks; the ones I have are going to keep me hopping all next week (along with two House Concerts).

I decided last night that today was going to be a pyjama day but it didn’t turn out that way. Pat went to the studio yesterday but he forgot some of his meds; before I even had the coffee made I saw a message from him asking me to bring his meds to the ferry and purchase a ticket for him so he could make a turn-around trip. So I had to get dressed.

I spent part of my day finishing up a bit of the organization – these are my works-in-progress. It doesn’t look too bad but I doubt I’ll get through them this year.

On the other side of the room are my quilting projects, both large and small, that are waiting for me to get at them. I still have to figure out what I’m going to do with my fabric collections. I don’t have any empty bins and I don’t have room for any more bins so I’m going back to thinking about how I might sort it all out.

This afternoon I finished my four March cards. I’ll be stitching down the bindings this evening.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Moreen and I ventured out for a walk this morning, our first since the snow started more than two weeks ago. We took a new path we had both heard about, one that neither of us had been on. We were never far from a house or business so we didn’t get lost. It was surprising how much snow there was on some parts of the trails and how little there was when we were walking through forests.

Since we both thought it might be icy and snowy we took our walking sticks. I’m glad I had them and that we were out early enough that for the most part nothing was melting. On the way home we ended up having to go around some muddy parts of the path. We may travel that route again as there were a lot of paths going in various directions and we just picked one as we came to it. Lots more exploring to do. My knees and wrists don’t think it felt so good to be out but I should sleep well tonight.

When I got home there was a message for me about a donation for our door prizes. I called another business and got two lovely (and very generous) baskets. Since one of the gifts was from A & W, I bought Pat lunch.

You’d think after all that exercise I’d have energy to burn but I feel more like taking a nap that doing the work that I need to do. I’ll get my reports ready for the Guild meeting tomorrow night and then I’ll get my project ready for stitching tomorrow.

And if there is any time left I can always go back to my organizing.