I had another day of card tops. At the beginning of the day I knew there were three tops that needed to be done and possibly a fourth one. One of our Guild members has a birthday the day after our next meeting and, if we were meeting in person, I wanted to give her a card.

Pat and I were gathered around the radio after lunch today to see what our new Public Health Orders would and wouldn’t allow us to do. Outdoor gatherings are still limited to ten people so there won’t be an in-person Guild meeting this month. It is possible that we will be able to have an outdoor wind-up party but we won’t know that for a few weeks.

From today’s announcement it looks like distance travel won’t really be recommended until the fall. We are still confined to our own regions for travel so no change there. Face masks are still mandatory; we can go into restaurants now but with the weather so nice we’d prefer to be eating on a deck rather than inside. I don’t think I’ll be comfortable taking any long trips until most of the population are fully vaccinated and air travel is fully opened again.

So it would appear that we’ll be stuck in our own little corner for a few more weeks. Since I needed a picture for my post and it seemed like the perfect block title for these past several months I thought I’d go ahead and make it. My Guild friend will get an e-card.

My first test on my mail delivery system worked well for both Pat and I. I’ve tweaked a couple more things today and included a photo in this post to see how it comes across. If all is well I’ll move over fully to the new system; I don’t expect any issues but there may be some.

Monday, May 24, 2021

I spent all morning working on my website. Adding the authors to my book posts isn’t hard but it is monotonous. I have two out of sixteen pages done so there is still a lot to go. I’ll have to up my daily page count if I ever hope to finish. As I go through the books I can often remember the story based on the cover of the book. There are a few though that I have no clue what they were about and, clearly, my review didn’t tell me anything. Based on a good report from Regan I put two more books on hold at the library.

I’m also trying to catch up on my quilting project book. I’m ready to start February of this year so I’m almost there. It’s the same with my Guild archives; I do a little bit each day and eventually they will be caught up.

After working on two large quilts it was nice today to be back to the small pieces my cards require. I had a chance to test out my new scrap system and I have to say it worked even better than I anticipated. I still have three colour-coordinated bags that need a bin but maybe that will encourage me to finish or transfer projects that are sitting in bins. And I also have several shoe boxes full of scraps organized the “old” way.

I have one card top finished and three more in progress. I hope to get another one finished before I quit for the day.

Sunday, May 23, 2021

If you happen to go to my website you will notice some changes. I’ve been wanting to do a make-over for quite awhile and I needed to change my mailing system; it seemed like a good time to make all the changes. I now have a search field; I mostly wanted that for my books so I could look up by author. I still have some work to do to categorize them but for the ones I have done it is working well. I don’t often search on other pages but I can now if I want to.

Pat helped me out with some of the design work so I took him out for lunch. Covid makes eating out tricky and on top of that it is Sunday where many of our favourite spots are closed. We settled on A & W; we sat on a bench at the beach to eat it.

I wanted to get two projects sandwiched today but only one got done – my Guild challenge. It won’t take long to quilt it.

The second project was a Christmas quilt. I washed the flannel backing and had it all nicely pressed. When I went to look for the quilt top I couldn’t find it anywhere. I went to my inventory spreadsheet and found out where it was supposed to be stored; not there but I found a bin with only one quilt top in it so I combined two bins into one. As I went through the bins looking for my top I updated my inventory listing and combined two more small bins into a larger bin. Still no Christmas quilt.

I was going through the pile of bins near my quilting machine but before I got too far in I spied my quilt top in one of my two-drawer bins. There were also a couple of table-toppers in the drawer so they went into one of the larger bins that held other quilt tops.

So I have two good-sized bins clear as well as a large drawer empty. That will allow me to start on a colour-coordination project for sorting scraps. It just never ends for me!

I knew I was going to have top piece the backing for the Christmas quilt. I had it out on the floor for measuring but when I put the quilt top over it I decided that I’d like to put a border on it. So no more sandwiching today.

The table have been put away for now. I guess I’ll see what kind of a mess I can make trying to organize my scraps into the empty bins.

Friday, May 21, 2021

I went out this morning and picked up my printing from Staples. Some of it was for the Guild but most of it was for my quilting project book. I hadn’t updated anything since October of 2019. I stopped at Kathleen’s to drop off the Guild work and we sat out on her deck and had a nice visit. When I got home I couldn’t figure out why I was so hungry. It wasn’t until I started to eat my snack that I realized it was 11:30, not 10:30.

It took longer than I expected to get the last three borders on my Log Cabin but they are done now. I’ll put it away and quilt it at some later date but I’ll have the top for our June wind-up at the Guild – if we are allowed one. Our orders change next week but the most I’m expecting as far as outdoor gatherings is possibly an increase in the number. We would normally have close to 40 at our wind-up party and I doubt very much that we’ll be allowed to go that high.

I think for the rest of the afternoon I’ll go out to the patio and read. My sewing room needs a good clean-up but I’ll do that tomorrow.