Monday, February 28, 2022

I can’t really say it caught me by surprise but I still have a few outstanding projects on the go for February. My quilting UFO was finished with time to spare (I’ll get it posted to my website tomorrow) but I didn’t do so well in some other areas. Oh well, they will get added to my task list and maybe before the end of the year they will get done. If not, they’ll be added to my 2023 UFO Challenge list.

I managed to get a couple of things finished up over the last week. Taylor’s blanket was sent off and apparently she is enjoying it. I also got caught up on my Botanical Garden stitch-along.

I enjoyed our weekend on Texada. We got my Thunderbird hung in my stitching room.

I finished a couple of books and we did some re-arranging. Now that Pat has moved most of his equipment back to Powell River we were able to expand our living room.

I haven’t been idle today. I dropped off several bags at the thrift shop and finished a long-standing task to get the Guild blogs archived. The posts dated back to 2008 and I finished them up to 2020. I’ll present them to the Guild at our meeting on Thursday; I’m not sorry to see that particular reminder removed from my list.

I didn’t have a lot of sewing time today and I had neither my piecing challenge nor my scrappy challenge done for the month. I thought I might have time to finished my scrappy challenge but I’m quitting now with four small blocks remaining.

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

How can it be that I stitch all day long and have so little to show for it. I’m keeping up with the weekly designs on my Peppermint Purple project but so far today I’ve only managed to finish two blocks on my Botanical Garden project. I’m not enjoying that one as much but a lot of it is my fault; I’m using a larger-count fabric than is ideal and I’m not sure the colours I picked are going to show up well. I can blame the designer for a couple of things though; the layout from block to block isn’t done well and she gave no hints as to colour choices. I look online to see what others have done and very few are following her patterns. And overall, there is so much green but I guess that should be expected in a garden.

The power on Texada is going to be off all day Friday. We originally thought it was going to be Thursday and Pat was thinking he might go across to keep a fire going and the place warm. Because I had already committed to my Thursday sewing group I wasn’t going to go along with him. We realized at lunch that the outage is for Friday so it was possible that I could cut my sewing time short and we could catch an afternoon ferry. We had pretty much decided this when the phone rang and Gail (the hostess) was cancelling as she had been called about a long-awaited appointment.

So we’ll go across tomorrow, get everything nice and warm and keep the fire going on Friday during the outage. We have pretty much given up on the internet over there so I’m not going to take my laptop. I’m looking forward to more hand stitching and some long sessions with my book.

Pat has an online session tonight so I’ll have time for a little more work.

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

I headed out to the post office just after nine this morning and my car said the temperature was only -1; it felt cold too even with my scarf and gloves on. Kathryn said it was -31 there today without adding in the wind chill so I know I shouldn’t complain or even comment on our cold. It has been a sunny afternoon but I just checked the weather and they say it is 3 but feels like -2. What happened to Spring?

I finished up my May quilt before moving on to cards this afternoon. I seem to be having trouble following diagrams as well as counting. On the first card top I twisted blocks on two of the three rows and I was glad to move on. On the second top I was pulling scraps of fabric but when I went to put the card together I had miscounted and had to go back into my scraps.

I’ll carry on for a bit but I think I might have better luck if I switch to my cross stitching.

Monday, February 21, 2022

I didn’t plan it this way but I’ve had a very lazy afternoon. I wasn’t able to take my donations to the thrift shop so that was one easy thing off my decluttering list. The other tasks on my list were computer-related so sitting with my coffee and working through them wasn’t exactly a challenge.

After lunch I got the binding attached to the May quilt. And for the rest of the afternoon I’ve been sitting in the sun hand stitching it down. I have one side left and that will be another job done. There are lots more waiting though so there will be no celebration.

We were looking forward to another session from Taylor’s competition but we won’t be getting it via Zoom. They are allowing spectators in to watch so I guess they didn’t think there was a need for the Zoom link. They didn’t ask me though and I’m disappointed. Christy said she’d try to get a video and send it along. Tumbling is a new disciple for Taylor and I was looking forward to seeing what she does.

My crocheting in the evening is going very slowly. It feels like a feather compared to the blanket I just finished but this has more pattern and I’m often messing up. I crochet a couple of rows then I have to take it back half a row and continue on again until the next blip.

I’ll get back to my hand stitching again and maybe I can finish before supper.