Saturday, January 30, 2021

I can’t seem to settle at anything today so I’m not going to bother trying. I finished my Alias Grace block before a very late breakfast.

This is Diane’s birthday and sometimes, since her death, I have made something for myself on this day. I sorted out a pattern (a cover for my mixer) and did the measurements but I just didn’t feel like going any further. So I set it aside and called Brian.

I tried once more to enthuse myself in something but it just wasn’t happening so I did some work on my Guild archives. I purchased a product that will take an export from the website (photos and posts) and turn it into a pdf file. The file it presents still needs some tweaking and some of the posts for the year I’m working on (2009-2010) had already been downloaded in another format. I’m slowly working my way through it but I’m going to move on to something else now.

I have a bit of leftover yarn that I’ll add into my crocheted afghan and who knows what I’ll do after that – I don’t suspect it will be much though.

Friday, January 29, 2021

Today was a scrappy day and I’ve certainly made a mess – but enjoyed every minute of it.

I put together 13 more blocks for the scrappy quilt I’m making with my Leaders and Enders. I’m more than half-way done which was a surprise when I counted things because they are getting done quite quickly.

Next up was a string project and that is where the mess comes in. I have a drawer full of strings – strips that are of any length and less than one-and-a-half inches wide. I’m using a thin piece of fabric as my foundation and both the foundation and the strips have bits of threads attached. When I sew the strips into the block I’m not careful about cutting off the threads at the beginning or the end of the seam so when I trim them off I end up with quite a mess.

I’m going to try to make it up to the library this afternoon to pick up the book I ordered. I’m not quite done my current book but the library isn’t open on weekends and I expect I’ll need a new book before Monday. Besides, it’s a good idea to run the car a bit.

Thursday, January 28, 2021

I’ve always had this problem. Even before I’ve finished one project I’ve thought of several more I’d like to do. It happened when I was knitting (hence all my yarn), it happened with cross stitching (hence all my floss and patterns) and it happens with quilting (hence all my fabric and patterns).

Today I was working on my Valentine cards; I’m on my third one and although I have to think about what I’m doing I can also let my mind wander from time to time. While I’ve stitched I’ve decided how these particular cards will be quilted and I’ve settled on my next two card patterns.

We watched the movie Shirley on Prime last night and I did some research on the author the movie is based on. I took a short break to place one of her books on hold at the library.

I’ve been knitting a scarf in the evenings; I didn’t have much mohair yarn but I thought I might get a decent-sized scarf. After knitting for one evening I took it all apart and made it a bit skinnier so I could get a little more length. But I still didn’t feel like it was going to work so I took another break from my stitching and found a scrap afghan pattern that I will use it in. I have an entire bin of “odd balls” and I’ll use all of them up in the pattern I found. I’ve crocheted a very similar afghan several times (in fact I have one on the go now) but this pattern is knitted and will suit the yarns I have better. Some of those novelty yarns are difficult to crochet with.

So I’m not sure that having my mind wander is such a good thing. The ideas I came up with just today will take me months to accomplish.