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!
I had another morning of online training – today’s topic mainly covered planning through the pandemic and planning for a re-opening. There were some useful ideas none of it was really something the Hall can use.
I also got the Agenda out for the Hall Board meeting on Monday. I was happy to include some of the things I learned in the first session. I don’t know how the changes will be received but I gave it a shot.
I may not accomplish much more for the day. Stacia, Deloise and I trade photos of what we have accomplished for the week and I didn’t have anything to show them. As an excuse they were told they’d already seen all my daily blocks and the quilt backing I made. I also had photos of my four birthday cards but they don’t get to see those until the birthdays arrive.
I’ll get back to my June UFO now – I haven’t made much progress on it and the month is almost half over.
It felt like things were completely back to normal today – I spent almost the entire day working on Hall stuff. I’ve had a chance to use the new accounting package for both Pat’s and my accounts but, with a meeting coming up next week, it was time to get to work on Cranberry Hall accounts. Setting up the package for the Hall was easy and since there has been very little activity since our year-end in April entering the first set of transactions went very quickly.
Then I attempted to reconcile my bank statement with the accounting package and ran into problems. Long-story short it is the way the new package deals with outstanding cheques between one statement and the next. I finally found the solution online and I also found a lot of requests for the developers to change the way things are done. I can only hope they are listening because I think my “work-around” will have to be the normal until they change.
Garden Path
Late this afternoon I managed to get my daily block finished. Today was meant to be a card-making day but that didn’t happen. I had three cards ready to be photographed and wrapped for mailing so I at least touched a few cards today.
