Monday, August 8, 2016

I was in my studio early this morning. I opened the windows to get a breeze going through and the first thing I heard was a loon’s call. I remember the first time we heard a loon when we were coming to Powell River on weekends  – we thought it couldn’t be true because loons don’t come near the ocean do they? Apparently they do and, although we’ve seen them occasionally on our walks, hearing their call remains a rare treat.

I did some work in preparation for our Cranberry Hall meeting on Wednesday. I don’t get updates from other Board members as often as I would like so I’m still trying to prepare the June statements. I’ve got the July statement almost ready as well but I have a whole list of questions for the meeting. I want to be able to sew on Wednesday so it is good to get it more or less taken care of today.

From there I packed up my sewing for tomorrow’s bee. It has been so long since I’ve been I could barely remember all the bags and boxes I generally take with me. I’ll be working at finishing up a couple of hexies for my Blossom quilt as well as cutting the background for the blossoms I have stitched together. In case that gets done quickly I’ve added my Celtic Crystals project. I hope to have both of these quilts finished for the quilt show.

It isn’t a particularly nice day out but I walked up to the mailbox with a card. At times it looked so much like a fall day that I worried summer may not return. It is a bit brighter now; I don’t mind the cooler weather, but I like the sun. I was just home from my walk when Pat suggested we go out for lunch so off we went.

I spent the afternoon cutting templates and fabric for my I’m a Farmer’s Daughter quilt. I thought I had a lot of pieces done but when I started counting I still have a long way to go; there are 36 pieces in each of 25 blocks and each of those 36 pieces is hand-basted before being hand-stitched to its partners! It hardly makes me feel better knowing I have one block finished. I’m aiming to get two more done before I go to Houston with Stacia and Deloise; we are all making the quilt and decided to exchange a block and I’d like to get theirs done.

I’ll do a bit of cross stitching for the rest of the afternoon. My advent calendar is coming along and I can almost see the end; unless something drastic happens over the next few months I should be able to send it out this year.