Friday, September 14, 2018

I’m doing some quilting today and it is going well. I’ve had a Community Quilt waiting to be quilted since June when we did our weekend workshop. There was a fire in town this week and the family lost everything; the head of our committee put out a call for quilts as her cupboard was bare. She quickly received answers from other quilters so she was able to place quilts with the family but that probably means her cupboard is bare again. I had other things to do but nothing more pressing so I got started.

The practice I’ve been getting on my cards has paid off for this quilt. I’m working with 12″ squares that are all different patterns but not exactly a sampler quilt. I decided to use the star pattern on each of the blocks; although I’m still drawing the lines in chalk I don’t need the book to know where the lines need to go. I have about half of the quilt done so, hopefully, I can finish up the quilting tomorrow. If I’m really lucky I’ll get the binding sewn on and I’ll be able to get it all done and delivered at the bee on Tuesday.

I took a bit of time out to get my driver’s license renewed this morning. Pat reminded me to brush my hair before I went although I think, since I’d washed it this morning, I would have remembered. They don’t want any smiling in the photos and we went with the first (and only) photo that was taken. I still look a bit like a criminal but then doesn’t everyone?

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

After a busy morning I’m feeling lazy this afternoon. I had the furnace people here just after eight for our yearly maintenance check. While the technician was doing his thing I washed, peeled, sliced and froze four bags of apples off our tree. I think this was probably our best year yet for apples. I’d like to get them picked just a bit earlier as some of them would have been good for eating fresh but there were just a few too many bruises on them to make them appealing.

Pat came home as a walk-on on the noon ferry and after I picked him up we went out for lunch. I had some Texada tickets to deliver to my friend who works at the quilt shop so I walked up there after we got home. I took along some sample blocks of my Farmer’s Wife quilt and Barb helped me pick out a fabric that might work for the sashing; it is lighter than I was thinking of but it has lots of colours in it that will be a good match for the many colours in the blocks. I also took the “outside” fabrics from my Farmer’s Daughter blocks; again we picked a light coloured fabric that has what I would call starbursts of colour. I didn’t have my quantities with me so I’ll have to go back up to actually purchase the fabrics.

We’re off to the movie tonight. I missed the first of the Cinematheque series last week due to a meeting and I’m looking forward to seeing some good movies on a regular basis for the next few weeks.