Friday, June 8, 2018

It has been a stormy day – wind and heavy rain at times. We haven’t had a day like this since winter.

It would have been a good day to:

• Curl up with a book
• Veg out with TV and my crocheting
• Focus on some sewing
• Almost anything but what I did all day

There is a Cranberry Hall meeting tonight and I’ve spent all day preparing for it.

Thursday, June 7, 2018

I spent a bit of time with my cross stitch this morning – I like to do a bit each day with my coffee (and it keeps me away from games on my iPad). Sadly the last strand I worked with all had to be taken out as I misread the pattern. Oh well, by now I have it restitched and can start fresh tomorrow morning.

I had a massage today; since I started working in the garden I’ve had a very sore neck. Pat says it is probably from reaching too far to grab at the weeds. Carrying heavy packages last week at the show didn’t help any either. When I was finished I asked if I should book another appointment. The therapist said, “You are definitely twisted so it would probably be a good idea”. It’s okay if a medical professional calls you twisted isn’t it?

We were only a group of two at sewing this afternoon. Jessie is on a trip to the East Coast for a month. Apparently the week I was away they didn’t even sew – they sat on the deck and chatted. So the bags didn’t get any closer to being done; I made some progress on mine this week and I think the worst of the stitching is done. Gail spent the afternoon on her computer with brief interruptions to tell me “You need to see this”!

I’m off to the Guild meeting tonight.

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

I’ve spent another full day at my desk. I met a renter at the Hall this morning at nine but I was only home for about an hour before heading out the door for another appointment at 10:30. I had a few errands to take care of and it was noon before I was home again. I did a bit of cleaning while I waited for another renter to come by the house, and then I headed back upstairs for more sorting out.

I have a full day tomorrow and I knew there would be no time to get my Guild reports ready so I finished them this afternoon. Not only is it our regular business meeting, but it is also our Annual General Meeting. Three reports for each meeting leaves me with six reports to present. Next I’ll have to start work on my Cranberry Hall reports for Friday.

I had a bit of time yesterday to sort through some of my Farmer’s Daughter blocks. I had a revelation regarding the project while we were at Quilt Canada and I bought a few more fabrics from the same designer in order to have enough fabric to work around the changes I plan to make. I didn’t get very far, but I know I need only a few more blocks of some of the neutral colours so I’ll start on those.

My Challenge for June (because I swapped out some of the projects to make it happen) is my Farmer’s Wife quilt. I thought I had about 80 of the blocks done but it turns out my notes show me with 93 blocks completed. I may want to redo some of my early blocks but I’ll work at getting the remainder of them sewn first. So, in case I ever do get back to sewing I at least have a couple of projects ready to work on.

I sat and enjoyed a bit of crocheting last night. I’ve decided to use the pattern I’ve been working on in another afghan that will use up my scraps of yarn. The pattern will be the same on this scrap project, but the rows won’t be planned; I’ll work with a colour until it runs out and then add another whether or not it is at the beginning, middle or end of the row.

I’m off to the movies tonight – it has been so long since I’ve seen a movie and I’m really looking forward to this one.