Sunday, May 2, 2021

I was catching up on my Guild Blocks of the Month today – I was three months behind. I had the first one finished by noon.

The second block was a Card Trick, which is a pattern I really like. The block is also one that I want to have in my Log Cabin quilt. The Guild block is 12.5″ but I only needed 8.75″ for my Log Cabin quilt. The directions for the Guild block were quite clear so I made two of the larger size and cut down each section to the size I needed for the log cabin block. It took some extra time but I got it done.

n the middle of the afternoon Pat asked if I felt like trying the Dairy Queen Drive-Thru for a treat. I’m not sure why he asked – of course I wanted to! We waiting in a bit of a line-up and then sat at the beach to finish our treats.

Since our snack this afternoon our supper will be late (if needed at all) and I had time to get the third block finished.

Saturday, May 1, 2021

I finished up my latest batch of cards before I stopped for lunch. When lunch was over I lined up patterns for my next set of cards. This being the first of the month my reminders for cards due in June popped up – there are five or six next month but one of them might get just an electronic greeting.

My May UFO Challenge was announced today. I’ll be working on my Paris Through the Window quilt. It has been sandwiched and I’m quilting it with straight lines so I hope it will be a finish by the end of the month.

I’m way behind on my Guild sewing. I downloaded the instructions for three Blocks of the Month; I’ll pull fabrics for them later today but I probably won’t start working on them until tomorrow.

The Guild Challenge and the Mystery Quilt are both due in June so I must get at them. I don’t have the Guild Challenge sandwiched yet; I’ll wait for the backing I ordered to arrive and sandwich a couple of things when I get a calm day. I have started on the Mystery Quilt but there is still a lot of quilting left. I saw the first photo of a completed quilt today and the quilting absolutely makes the quilt. The quilting on mine won’t be spectacular so the quilt had better be ready to stand on its own.

I’m ready and I’m almost set. I just need to get going now!

Friday, April 30, 2021

I spent the day making a couple of cards. It takes about half a day for each card top and sometimes longer if they include appliqué or embroidery. One of the cards today had both and the other one had only appliqué. I pieced batting for the three cards in this group and cut out backing for them as well.

I generally spend another half day on each card between sandwiching, quilting and binding. Pat has an online event late this afternoon so I thought I’d get a head start on the above-mentioned tasks.

But first I wanted to check my messages and also check in on Facebook in case there was something I needed to know. There wasn’t but I fell down the rabbit hole anyway. Then I played a few games of Solitaire before I remembered something I wanted to Google. No results for my Google search but I fell down another rabbit hole.

So instead of making progress and maybe getting a little ahead of schedule on my cards I’ve wasted a lot of time. I might as well have quit when I had the tops finished but I’m going back to the sandwich and quilting and maybe tomorrow I can have a shorter day.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

I woke up with a headache this morning. I don’t get them often anymore and I seldom feel the need to go back to bed after taking medication but I did today. I’m not sure what triggered it – allergies maybe, or the change in weather of late.

I didn’t feel like doing much when I got up but I sat at my computer all morning; the time just flies when I’m working on computer projects. After checking my mail and seeing that my points at one of the fabric shops were going to expire I looked for a backing fabric that would work for one of my Christmas quilts. No luck so I looked at a different shop and ordered some. Just a few minutes after placing my order I got a notice that they didn’t have enough of the fabric; I looked again and told them about a replacement fabric. There wasn’t enough of that either so I picked out three different fabrics and eventually got enough of one of them. It wasn’t exactly what I wanted but it will work.

Then I was on hold with the Land Titles Office on behalf of the Hall. The hold music was so bad and after 20 minutes I thought my headache was getting worse, not better. At the end of the call (I got my question answered) I told the woman (very nicely) that their music was horrible. She laughed and said she never called the number but she would pass my message along.

I got some paperwork and reports ready for the Hall meeting on Monday and then started in on more of the Guild archives. I was about to quit when I got THE phone call from the accountant regarding our income tax. That is all taken care of now. No wonder I have a headache!

I started working on another batch of cards this afternoon but it is going very slowly. I’m going to blame it on my headache but that probably has nothing to do with why the seams are going in the wrong direction and pieces are being stitched upside down.

I’m quite sad too because I knew there was a mistake on one of the rows of That Fairy Tale Quilt. I fixed it once, and then fixed my fix and decided I could live with it. But now that it is all put together and I’ve seen it laying on the floor and in photos I know I have to go back and do it right.

Just another headache to add to my day!