I had yarn left from the previous afghan I made but not enough of any colour to form a pattern. I decided to do one large granny square to use up the yarn. It turned out reasonably large and will be nice to cover a lap. It will be a donation.
March 27, 2024
This card turned out much better than I thought it would. I wasn’t sure those banners would look right but, overall, I’m happy with it. It went together quickly and I’m likely to use the pattern again.
Friday, March 15, 2024
I was up early this morning so I could listen to Dave’s announcement that he was signing off with CJWW after 22 years. You might think he was retiring but he’s not – he’s headed off on a new adventure in Regina and taking his family with him. It will make Saskatchewan trips a bit more difficult to see everyone but I’m so happy for him.
As you know we were very disappointed in the Film Festival offerings, but we have seen a couple of great movies this week. The Taste of Things is the movie that we missed due to the snow that we got during festival week. It was rescheduled to this past Tuesday and pass holders got in for free. This was the kind of film we had come to expect from the festival – beautifully shot and enough story to keep it interesting.
Last night we saw a documentary 500 Days in the Wild – again, an excellent presentation. The director and cinematographer is the first person to complete the Trans Canada Trail from coast to coast to coast. It was an epic six year journey, which doesn’t explain the title. It was almost all done solo and there were very few shots of any settlements along the way.
I have spent the better part of the last two days sewing with Stacia and Deloise. My project took almost a day-and-a-half but it is ready now to have the binding stitched down. My plan was to move on to my mystery quilt (another clue was released yesterday) and then start cutting for my next chicken block.
We are heading across to the studio this afternoon. Originally we were going to go tomorrow so Pat could go to the movie tonight (Dune Part 2). We have to be home next Thursday for my lab appointment and Pat noticed that the movie would still be showing when we got home so we moved up our plan.
That meant that by the time I finished my project and did my packing for the trip I had very little time for the mystery or the chickens. I cleaned up my cutting table, trimmed down a few scraps, and managed one set of 12 HSTs for my mystery. I think the floor is tidy enough that I can do some vacuuming before we start packing the truck.
I’ve packed very light this trip. I have my project to bind, a small embroidery project to finish and a new one to start (and leave on Texada for the future). I’m mainly going to be working on the grad gift that has lagged far behind where I wanted it to be.
I also have two library books to read – one I’m looking forward to and the other not so much. Oryx and Crake is the last one that was on Dylan’s reading list; I started it on an audio book and didn’t enjoy it. But if I start the actual book you know I have to finish it. The other book is the first in a series of twelve; the TV show Poldark (which we really enjoyed) is based on the books. I’m not committing to all twelve until I see how I like the first one.
Sunday, March 10, 2024
We were looking forward to a week of movies at the Film Festival – our first movies in about three years. We’ve always enjoyed the Film Festival, even in the early days when we had movies in two different locations sometimes three times a day.
This year’s selection was a disappointment for us. So much so that we opted not to even go to some of them. There were a lot of documentaries shown in prime time; in the past the documentaries were usually shown at the matinees. Some of them could only be called art films where the emphasis was on either the way the film was shot or the landscape in which they were shot. Some of them were focused on specific subjects that weren’t too relevant to us – agricultural diversity and undersea mining.
One of the movies that we really wanted to see showed the afternoon of the big snowfall so, for safety reasons, we chose to stay at home. Fortunately it has been rescheduled for this week so we’ll have a chance to see it.
Pat went to one movie that I decided to skip and I went to a movie that Pat skipped. It would seem like a waste of our full pass but even if we didn’t see all the movies our payment supported the film society.
On a brighter note we had a lovely brunch at our favourite restaurant – The Forest Bistro. Today was the first day of their new feature – Sunday brunch. There was a good turnout when we were there; I hope they had enough business to keep it running.