Thursday, August 12, 2021

What didn’t get done yesterday got done today – well almost everything. I have the binding ready to hand stitch on my quilt and I have my mixer cover pieces just about all quilted. I should be done them by supper time.

I’ve spent a lot of time on Hall work today getting ready for the show tomorrow night. We aren’t producing this show but I think we’ve done more work for it than we would one of our own shows. Maybe we are just out of practise but I thought our processes were streamlined a bit better than they seem to be right now. Mind you we have new Board members doing new things so there is some training involved, as well as new procedures for Covid safety. I’m doing my same-old same-old duties and trying to answer all of the e-mail questions that are coming at me from all directions.

It’s awfully hot today so I may defer stitching my binding tonight. It seems like it might be better done tomorrow morning when it is cooler.

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

I had hoped the title would be quilting and more quilting but the day is almost over and I’m not going to get to the “more” part.

Yesterday was a sewing day with Stacia and Deloise. I managed to keep up to them and even had time to start a new project. Several months ago I thought about making a cover for my Kitchen Aid mixer but just didn’t get to it. Christy also wanted one and with her coming to visit at the end of the month I thought I should get at it. Yesterday I managed to get my test piece pinned together and sized and then I got it sandwiched for quilting.

I had three borders to do on my Super Nova quilt so my thought was that I’d get the quilting done, get it trimmed and sew on the binding. From there I would move on to quilting my mixer cover.

I have finished quilting my quilt but nothing has been trimmed and no binding has been cut. I also haven’t had time to do any quilting on the mixer cover. It’s always good to have something to look forward to for the next day.

Pat has an online event tonight so I’ll be starting this week’s Peppermint Purple pattern.

Monday, August 9, 2021

I’ve had a full day of sewing. I thought about going out to the yard this morning but it was rather cool and since I was already dressed for my video chat this morning I didn’t feel like changing into my yard clothes.

I marked and quilted one side of the border on Super Nova. It goes fairly quickly and there are fewer ends to tie and bury than I thought there might be. Since the border went so well, and I have lots of time to finish it before the end of the month, I decided to move on to something else once that one side was done.

I’ll be sewing with Stacia and Deloise tomorrow so I got out the fabrics I’ll need for our miniature project. The pattern calls for strips and I just happen to have a bin of strips already cut; they will need to be trimmed once they are on the block but it is a bit of a head start. Not that I expect I’ll win any races against Stacia and Deloise; I’m lucky there are only the three of us as I’m guaranteed the bronze medal!

Just in case I finish my miniature early I decided to cut out another project. I cut out the pieces I thought I needed but when I read through the pattern I’ll have to cut another set because I want the project quilted. I’m making a cover for my Kitchen Aid mixer; if it turns out I’ll make one for Christy as well.

Another clue was released for one of my summer mysteries – I’m calling mine Lemonade as it is done in yellows and oranges. The clues usually only take half a day but this one is going to take a lot longer. We need to make 30 blocks. The good news about that is the end is in sight – maybe next week. I don’t want to fall behind this late in the game so I started putting my blocks together.

I’ll get back to it now until supper.

Sunday, August 8, 2021

After being so un-motivated on Friday I got down to business on Saturday and almost finished quilting my Super Nova. I finished up the quilting this morning and made a small start on the borders. The quilting is very simple and it will end up being a nice summer-weight quilt. Because the centre was so simple and fast, I’ll do a little extra work in the borders. I have the pattern sorted but it will take some time to complete and I expect there are likely to be a number of threads to knot and bury.

I think I stuck to it so long yesterday because it was a cool and rainy day. I didn’t mind having the quilt draped around me as I did the stitching. We had quite a downpour last evening after several light showers during the day. There were reports of thunder; when we heard noises outside during the downpour we thought it was the eaves trough overflowing but maybe not. Unfortunately there wasn’t enough rain to stop any fires.

We had the Song Circle this afternoon but, again, a poor turnout. Three local performers, two from the US and only me in the audience. I admit I had my camera off and worked on some cross stitching during the event. I’m going to miss being able to do that when our events become live.

I’m getting ahead of myself by a few months but I started crocheting some Hallowe’en pumpkins for Kathryn. Last Hallowe’en she was caught off guard by neighbours who were out trick or treating (after saying they weren’t going out) and she had to give all of her original batch away. The pattern came from Jody’s wedding and I don’t know how many I’ve made over the years since then but I know it is a lot. Kathryn sent me yarn to make her some more and I thought it would be a good idea to have them ready when we go to visit next month.

So I better get back to that particular project for the evening.