I had another call from the library today – they have another book for me. I went online and I see that I have one more book on order. Hopefully I’ll have at least one of my current books finished before I get a call about that one. If we were on Texada (we’re not), and if the weather was nice (it isn’t here), I could be spending my days in the hammock reading.
I was actually looking forward to doing some quilting today. I already knew what I was going to do on the quilt and it was all straight lines. This is the quilt I sandwiched on the weekend; it’s I good thing I did it then as it has been rainy all day today.
I have time to carry on with my quilting but I’m going to put it aside and do a bit of reading. I have a Cranberry Hall meeting tonight (via Zoom) and I need to be relaxed for that.
You can imagine that the photo on the calendar made use of red, white and blue as a salute to you-know-what-country. I’m not sure what mine represents but it feels more worldly than American.
I did enough cleaning up yesterday that I was able to cut a width of fabric for one of my quilts. But there was still lots to be done today. I marked a bunch of fabric squares for more pinwheels; these will be my leaders and enders next week once the sampler blocks are together. I didn’t deal with my scraps last week so the basket was full; each week I get a few more scraps organized but I should probably take a week and get them completely done.
This afternoon I’ve moved on to cross stitching. The project isn’t a favourite by any means and I’ll be glad when it is done; and to get there I have to keep working at it.
It took until almost noon to finish my daily block – my leaders and enders were a bit longer than usual. I had finished stitching my pinwheels for the next two rows of my scrap quilt so I needed something else. I had a pile of my daily blocks set aside to put into a sampler quilt so I started sewing them together as my leaders and enders. It takes more time but I feel like I’m accomplishing something with almost every stitch.
My usual quilting day isn’t until Monday but I took advantage of the fact that there was only a very light breeze and I sandwiched a quilt on the deck. I’ve added that to my pile of quilting that needs to be done. I have five quilts that are sandwiched and in the quilt line-up and another bin of I-don’t-know-how-many that need backings and then sandwiched.
My pile of things to take to the Guild tailgate party is growing. I have at least three of the blocks of the month, my mystery quilt, my Challenge project, and three donation quilts – I’ll need a truck to get them all there (LOL). We’ve been challenged to make a Covid-19 decorated mask for the event; mine will be quilt related and I’ve set aside several things that will be attached to it.
I’ll get back to my sample quilt for what’s left of the afternoon.
I was ready to post my daily block. I took the photo, I loaded my camera card into the laptop, and transferred the photo from my camera to my Photos app. I had the photo cropped and ready to export to my main machine before I saw my mistake. I don’t know how many chances I have when I’m sewing to check that I have things right but somehow I still manage to get something wrong.
This morning I was doing some prep work on a Covid-19 opening for the Hall. I had the document done, I had transferred it to a pdf, I wrote an e-mail to send it out with and I attached the document to the message. I was checking before I hit the Send button and I saw something that needed to be changed. I made the change, went back through the process again and noticed something else I wanted to change. I think it took me four attempts to get down on paper what I wanted to say. Hopefully other Board members will read it after all my troubles.
I had a few things I wanted to get out in the mail today. I don’t usually post anything on a Friday because it doesn’t go very far but if I left them until Monday it seemed that might be a bit late. I use the drive-through letter box and today just as I was pulling up to it I saw one of the postal workers with a bag of mail. I rolled down the window and asked if she does another pickup and she said no. I was able to hand her my items and they went into her bag. I thought I had until 3 PM to do my drop but apparently it is only until 2 PM. So all those days I thought I was getting things into the mail they probably sat in the letter box overnight.
I stopped at the bottle depot before I took a longer drive. I decided that if I was going to go out to the Guild “do” I had better get more comfortable being around people. There were cars in the lot but not as many as there have been on some days. I put on my mask and loaded my cans onto the trays outside so I was able to keep my distance from everyone. When I went in to actually make the swap (cans for money) I thought there were too many people inside and I wasn’t sure they were distancing properly. No one was wearing a mask and I’m quite certain that the trays weren’t being isolated or cleaned after each use. I had hand sanitizer in the car so I cleaned my hands as soon as I got back in and then I washed my hands well once I was home. I’m pretty sure I was safe everywhere I went but it really is my first time out since the middle of March.
And I’m not going to mention how many times I went back and changed something in this post!
