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Feeling very relaxed

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Friday, June 5, 2020 (Day 81)

Checkmate

I’ve no reason to feel relaxed but I’m not feeling any pressure to get anything done today.

Between meetings and errands yesterday I sorted out some of my 12″ daily blocks and put them up on the design wall – well actually down as my design wall is the floor. I looked at the layout through the camera, made a few changes and then left them. This morning I made a few changes, took a couple of photos (one black and white) and sent them off to Stacia and Deloise for their opinion. I made a few changes after that and then sent off another two shots. I’m pretty sure I’ll go with the second layout but I’ll wait until Stacia weighs in.

I was supposed to be working on my June UFO Challenge yesterday but I didn’t feel like I had enough time to really get back into it. Last night during my 100+ Women Who Care I muted my mic, turned off my camera and while I listened to the presenters I got the blocks pinned and ready to sew the first seams. This morning I stitched those seams together so when I pick it up again next week I’ll be a bit further ahead.

It was time for lunch by the time I got my daily block done. While we ate lunch we watched a TV show; the episodes are at least an hour long (sometimes longer) and it is taking a long time to get through the series. I can’t knit or stitch because of the subtitles and it felt completely decadent to be watching television in the afternoon.

But I got back to work after one show. I’ve sorted through my scraps and put them away where they belong. I thought I had enough pinwheels for two more rows on one of my scrappy projects but I don’t like some of them so I’m going to make a few more before I quit for the day.

Meetings, meeting, meetings

Cards, Journal

Thursday, June 4, 2020 (Day 80)

Broken Path

After a couple of months of having minimal contact with anyone there were three online meetings scheduled for today. Two of them overlapped so I had to choose the one I thought most important. They both were to aid me with my Hall work but one of them allowed me to get a recording of the event so I let that one slide and Zoomed into the other one. This was a workshop that was supposed to have happened during a full day of training before the pandemic shut everything down. The presenters have broken the topics down to four different morning meetings. The meeting was informative but from the pre-reading and videos I watched before the meeting I’m not sure I learned anything. More meetings to come in the following weeks; no doubt I’ll get some ideas but whether or not I’ll follow through on them is uncertain.

Quilting Music (from the Splendid Sampler 2 series)

It was a quilting friend’s birthday today so I drove by her house to drop off this card. Not only is she a quilter but she also plays piano and is learning guitar. I remembered from looking through my book that one of the blocks involved musical notes – I had no idea that the name for the block would be so appropriate. We had a nice chat on her doorstep.

I picked up another book at the library today; again I had no idea what I would find in my bag. I looked on Goodreads and the books were both added to my “To Read” list a year ago so it is no wonder I don’t remember. I guess they must have been popular and it took this long for my name to come to the top of the list, or maybe I didn’t order them right away.

I was able to stop at the bank with my deposit today and I dropped a couple of bins at the recycle depot. The bottle depot still had a full parking lot so I didn’t stop. Yesterday on Facebook I offered all my paper grocery bags (and I had a lot of them) to anyone who wanted them. I had a good response and the woman who took them picked them up first thing this morning. I didn’t have room to store any more of them and it is nice to know there are a couple of places who can take the next batch off my hands.

Tonight I have a Zoom meeting for 100+ Women Who Care. I’m not sure how the voting will work but I learned a lot of technical things about Zoom this morning so hopefully I will be able to keep up.

I didn’t know there would be work to do

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 (Day 79)

Bird Tracks

I am scheduled to have two Zoom meetings tomorrow morning; they overlap a bit so I’ll finish with one of them and join the other in progress. By registering for the second one I’ll be able to get a recording of the meeting so I can see what, if anything, I missed in the first hour. I got reminders in the mail for both meetings but I didn’t expect to get a list of things I needed to do before the meetings. Hopefully I’ll have time to review what needs to be done before the meetings start.

I worked on cards today. I finished all my June card requirements but four of them still need to be quilted. I dealt with a lot of scraps today and even found some pieces that might be large enough for my daily blocks. There was also a bag of HSTs in one of the tins I was digging through.

Pat has an online session this evening; if I don’t run out of energy I’ll go out and do a bit of work in the yard until he is done.

Rainy day

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 (Day 78)

Aunt Mary’s Double Irish Chain

It’s been raining all day today and all I want to do is nap. It didn’t help that this morning’s block was very difficult. To begin with I don’t like large blocks (16″ for this one) because I have to dig into my fabric stash as opposed to being able to use scraps. And I wasn’t able to figure out the math on any of those triangles to make joining them easy. The “put it together” picture was of very little use and I ended up doing every seam at least twice, maybe more. And I had no idea what measurements to trim each of the sections to. But done is done!

I worked on a Guild project this afternoon. The piece was to have been a challenge project for our Hands Across the Water event which has been cancelled due to the pandemic. I figured since I already had it started I may as well finish it and get it off the list. It is a size that will work as a miniature if we ever get back to those meetings.

I should do some trimming of scraps; I should do some accounting; I could do some cross stitch but I think I’ll finish my book (and probably nap).