Monday, August 31, 2020

It probably comes as no surprise that I have a schedule. I don’t always follow it but the schedule is always in the back of my mind. I finished off a hand stitching project last night (a Sunday project) and today I stuck to my planned schedule in spite of a few interruptions.

I’ve decided to get back to doing the daily block; I hoped I might get an extra one done but this one took most of the morning because I had some Guild and Hall business to take care of.

This afternoon I’ve been quilting (my Monday schedule) and although it is slow going I’m a third of the way done. It is a Guild monthly project from a couple of years ago. I don’t particularly like it and almost decided not to take it any further than a flimsy. But it was already sandwiched and all of the blocks were designed by friends in the Guild so it will be a nice reminder.

Tomorrow I get my September UFO project. Although I might not like the project number that is picked, I look forward to seeing what it will be.

Sunday, August 30, 2020

True to my plan I worked on my daily blocks today. This block, as well as one a day or two ago, appealed to me and made me want to get back to them. Bigger blocks, a lot of pieces and, often, some mistakes and I didn’t get nearly as many done today as I thought I could. But that’s okay, I’ll keep going as the days go by.

I’m done for the day now except for a bit of hand stitching tonight. But first I’ll get some supper and make a Johnny Cake.

Saturday, August 29, 2020

Yesterday I made a deal with myself – work on the appliqué for a day and then spend Saturday on some daily blocks.

The appliqué work yesterday had a few issues but by the end of the day I had six of the ten blocks finished. It was too close to being done for me to put them all away so I finished them off this morning. But since this is my August UFO I decided to stitch the blocks together before I put it away. And then I decided to attach the two rows to the other rows of the project. So, at the end of the day I’ve made good progress on my UFO and put it away for another day (probably the next time it ends up on a UFO list).

We got the final setting yesterday for the mystery quilt so I think I’ll get it laid out this afternoon. I like the layout but I don’t think I’m going to like the colours I picked. Too late now to do anything about it though. It is very large and it barely fits on my design board (the floor).

Tomorrow, I promise, I’m going to get at a daily block or two.

Friday, August 28, 2020

To keep myself accountable I’m reporting that I have indeed started the appliqué on my quilt. The first couple of blocks went very well but this latest one has been giving me problems.

I bought a new type of sewing needle that was supposed to go through the fusible interfacing without gumming up the needle. That didn’t work as promised.

In order to have the colours I wanted to use I had to switch to some spools of much finer thread and changed to an embroidery needle in the machine in the hopes it would stop the fraying. That worked reasonably well.

Now my machine is skipping stitches with the zig zag and I think it is entirely due to the gumming up of the needle. I have one more small bit to do in the colour I have loaded and then I may go back to a heavier thread and a “regular” sewing machine needle.

I can’t seem to win but I’m not giving up.