Friday, April 6, 2018

In my new “yard” schedule I should have been doing another morning of work in the yard. It was a bit rainy when I got up and showers were predicted for the day so I decided to work on some Cranberry Hall and tax papers instead. As it turned out, the day was quite nice and I don’t think there were any showers.

I had a few updates that needed to be done as a result of the Guild meeting last night. Why is it so much more fun at the Guild meetings than it is at the Cranberry Hall meetings? I still have a bit of work to do in the next few days, but it was nice to have the majority of the work done so quickly. I know I was just procrastinating at getting to the Cranberry Hall paperwork. Monday will be the last meeting before our Member Appreciation event and our Annual General Meeting so there was a lot to do. I’ll need to spend at least another morning at the task but I worked on it until almost noon. The Hall is book the evening of the meeting so we’ll be gathering at our place which gives me just a little bit more time to prepare should I need it.

I also spent some time getting our paperwork ready for filing our Income Tax. We send it all to an accountant but I still have to document and copy everything I’m sending just in case it goes missing in the mail. I have a whack of copying to do that will take another half day I expect.

But after lunch I got back to my quilting and I’m happy to say that I’ll be hand stitching binding this evening – and probably most of the day tomorrow. I’m anxious for this quilt to be finished and I hope to show it at the Tuesday bee so it can be struck off my Guild UFO list.

Thursday, April 5, 2018

As usual, I did a bit of cross stitching before getting started on my day. It is amazing how quickly this first cross stitch block is coming together; I work with just one strand of thread (split into three strands) each morning while I have my coffee. I can hardly wait to get the block finished and try out the fabric version. I haven’t confirmed this yet but in my mind I have a stash of one fabric line that just might work together for these blocks.

Tonight is the Guild business meeting so I had to get my reports ready. I had a few new Guild library books to get ready and a month’s worth of mail to get through and report on. After I finished that I went on to clear out my personal e-mail and I ran through a couple of loads of laundry. I should really have carried on and got a start on my Cranberry Hall meeting notes but decided I’d get a bit more done on Fat Cats and Dog.

Last night, before I quit, I ran out of bobbin thread just before making the final turn on the border. So I filled up the bobbin and finished the stitching around the border. I wasn’t sure what I would do in the border for quilting but I knew I wanted it to be simple. I thought diagonal lines would work so I started marking. I was having a heck of a time getting the right measurements and the diagonals going the right way so I could do a continuous stitch; finally it occurred to me that if I just turned the pointy ruler over the lines would be going the right way and there would be no measurements needed. I re-marked one side and managed to get it stitched before lunch.

Thursday afternoon is another sewing bee for me; all three of us are working on our Supernova quilt. I managed to get all of the blocks sewn into the ten rows I need. Next week I hope to get all the rows sewn together. I sometimes leave my machine at Gail’s but this month I seem to be needed to have all three of my machines at hand. I have one machine I need for my April challenge, one machine I need for my Tuesday project and my home machine, which doesn’t go anywhere, will be busy with quilting projects. I decided to leave my Thursday project in a bag at Gail’s so there will be one less bag for me to carry next week.

Until it is time for supper I’m going to sit and do some more cross stitching – all this crafting is addictive, but in a good way!