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Leaders & Enders 2016

Quilting
Finished Size: 51″ x 60″

My Leader and Ender project for 2016 is done and has been passed along to the Guild for Community Quilts. I had to get it out of the house because if I kept it much longer I’d be wanting to keep it for myself. It’s been folded and stored in a bag for that very reason – out of sight, out of mind.

I’m not sure why I like it so much – is it that the scraps I used in the quilt are some of my favourites or maybe it’s because I can remember where almost every scrap came from. It was my own design, based on something I saw online, but I can see a few things that maybe should have been done differently. There are a few nine patches that didn’t show up well with the background – specifically in the top right corner.

It took forever to quilt. I outlined all the nine patches and then did a free-motion flower in the background squares. The final border was quilted with a meandering pattern – my go-to design! I don’t know why I went to all that trouble (except it was good practice) because the quilting doesn’t show up on either the front or the back.

I used my own backing for this – I loved the top and none of the backings we had for Community Quilts really worked with it. I used a multi-coloured binding, most of which was left from other projects I’ve bound.

 

Happy Birthday Kathryn

Cards, Needlework

January 4, 2018

This small stitchery was started, and mostly completed by Mum. When I moved all my cross stitch and embroidery projects to Texada I got a better look at which ones would be easy finishes, and this was the first that I tackled.

I did the framing myself. It fit nicely into a 5″x7″ frame.

Not according to plan

Journal

Thursday, January 4, 2018

My plan for today was to do a couple of quick things that resulted from the Board meeting last night, get a deposit ready, and head out for a few errands – the bottle and recycle depot as well as get some gas. Then I remembered that I had to do the cleaning at the Hall for awhile (our regular cleaner is having surgery), but if there wasn’t anything in the Hall over the weekend it could wait until Monday. As luck would have it there is an event there on Sunday so I’ll do my running around and cleaning tomorrow. Those full days at home are so hard to come by!

First on my “quick list” was changing a wrong mailing address with Revenue Canada. I spoke to someone who couldn’t change it because I wasn’t on the list of Directors that she had. I had our last filing in front of me but she didn’t and wouldn’t budge on making the change. I demanded (yes, I had to demand) to speak to someone higher up who would have access to our latest records and I finally got someone who could help me. Sorting it all out took a long time, but hopefully the address has been changed in all the right places.

The deposit was quite quick, as were the other items on my list. I had barely moved on to something else (shredding more paper) when the phone rang and someone wanted to drop off money for Sunday’s Hall rental; it was either redo my deposit or create a new one so now I have two deposits to make tomorrow. I have to let the renter into the Hall (and check her out) on Sunday afternoon; I’ll stay for at least part of her event and then go back to the Hall, do the cleaning for next week and lock up.

I was ready to do a bit of sewing by the time lunch was over. I put the binding on my card, as well as the binding on the quilt that I used as practice with the long-arm. Both are ready for some hand stitching so I’ll do that until it is time to get ready for the Guild meeting tonight.

A quick update

Journal

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

I have less than ten minutes before we head off to the Cranberry Hall Board meeting. I spent all day in my studio – most of the morning was spent getting reports ready for the meeting tonight and for the Guild meeting tomorrow.

When the work was done I got busy on a card; since I was using a Splendid Sampler pattern I did an extra block for my Second Time Around quilt. It’s the first sampler block I’ve done for ages and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have the binding left to do on the card and some stay-stitching around the edges of the block but it feels like a productive day.

I found a suggestion for 31 days of decluttering. It’s going to take me longer than that but I thought I could work at the Day One suggestion until it is done and then move on. Paperwork was the first de-cluttering goal so I shredded a couple of bins of paper today; I still have a box full and there would be more if I cleaned out my filing cabinet, but first things first!