Author: Melanie Sumner
I don’t remember why this book was added to my list; maybe I picked it up from the library on a day I was “just browsing”.
I really wanted to like the book but I found that the style of writing to be confusing; it bounced around a lot and I was close to the end before I got a clear picture of what the main story was. That being said, I’m still not sure exactly who the ghost was.
Goodreads Rating * * (it was okay but I wouldn’t recommend it)
Friday, August 31, 2018
Today has seemed so much like Saturday. I wonder if it is because my “things” tend to finish up on a Thursday so Friday feels like a weekend which, for many years, started on Saturday. At any rate I’m not doing much work today.
This morning I boiled the eggs and cooked the bacon for my spinach salad for the birthday party tomorrow. I also cut up the green onions for the 7-Layer Dip; I’ll put that together once we’re on Texada. The party doesn’t start until six so I’ll have plenty of time as I expect we’ll be on the first ferry out tomorrow.
I helped Pat load up his sound system for the festival concert at the Hall tonight. Pat is doing sound for them (a separate deal since he’s no longer on the Board) and I’m opening and closing for the event. As part of Pat’s payment for working he received passes to the festival this weekend – we’ll be back in time on Sunday to attend the final day.
I spent some time in my studio this morning putting the sashing and corner stones on my 4-Seasons Tree. I need to get it quilted for the miniature meeting in September so it will be the first thing I do when I get back to quilting.
For the rest of the afternoon I’ll clean and oil my machine, I’ll change the needle and I’ll be ready to go come Monday.
August 30, 2018
There are challenges with making cards. Leave them too late and you don’t get them posted in time to arrive for the recipient’s special day. But make them too early and you forget where you are in the process.
Such is the case with Ron’s card this year. I had it finished in plenty of time to get it in the mail; in fact it was on my design wall for at least a week before it was mailed out. But as I was driving home one day I realized that I didn’t remember taking a photo of the card. I couldn’t even remember what the card looked like.
When I got home I checked my files but there was no photo. I reviewed my “Recently Opened” files but there was nothing there that looked familiar. My other source of cards has been my Quilter’s Block-A-Day calendar and as I flipped through that I found the pattern I’d used – Double Pinwheel.
So there are no photos, but I wish Ron the best of days just the same!
UPDATE: Thanks to Ron for sending along a photo of his card!
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
I’ve been promising myself since the beginning of summer that I was going to get at some quilting, and by that I mean actual quilting, not just piecing. Well, September is almost here and nothing has been quilted. There have been sampler blocks made, cards made and delivered, giant steps made in other projects, but no actual quilting. I have three projects that are sandwiched ready to go and about five more that need to be sandwiched.
Of the eight (or so) projects I need to quilt, only one of the ones that are sandwiched are really priorities – one is a Community Quilt which needs to be delivered, one is a Christmas project (that will be my November mini), and one is a project I will probably attempt to sell at the quilt show (it didn’t turn out as well as I wanted it to).
Of the five waiting to be sandwiched, one is last year’s Row by Row which I really should try to get done before the September meeting. There is a table topper in the pile that was destined for the table on the patio – maybe next summer? There are two gift projects in the pile and another one that I’m hoping to put in the quilt show.
But I’ve kept putting it off and putting it off. I promised myself that as soon as the paper-piecing projects were finished I was going to change my needle, clean my machine and get at it. Well I think the time has come. I finished the last tree of my 4-Seasons Tree this afternoon – once I get the borders on it I’ll have to get it sandwiched and quilted for the September 11th meeting.
But this is a busy weekend. I have my stitching tomorrow afternoon, Pat is playing his last session in Lund and I have a 60th birthday party I should make an appearance at. Friday I’ll be busy preparing for a party on Texada on Saturday – 7-Layer Dip and Spinach Salad – and I have to open and close for a concert at the Hall. Saturday we’ll go over to Texada for a 75th birthday party and then back home on Sunday for the Sunshine Music Festival here in Powell River.
So maybe next week I’ll get at that quilting.