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.
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).
I had to go out this morning so I decided I’d run a few errands while I was out. I was feeling safe because Pat spoke to his doctor last week and there have been no confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Powell River. I made a mask for myself (with ties) and was ready to get on my way.
First I did my usual drive-around to charge up the battery in the car. From there I stopped at the post office and put a few things in the mail at their drive-thru mailbox. Then it was on to the recycle depot; Pat said they were open and were limiting the people to two, one in each lane. They may have had one in each lane inside, but there were about six in each lane outside waiting to get in so I decided not to stop.
Next stop was the library. I had placed a book on hold (long enough ago that I had no clue what the title was) and they are open now for pick-ups. The library staff pick the book off the shelf, check it out in your name and then put it in a brown bag for pick-up. I was called last week and my appointment for pick-up was 11:15. I was a bit early but I could see there was no one in the lobby so I went on in. The fellow at the table asked my name and brought me my bag. It was a nice surprise to look inside the bag and see what book I had received; I don’t remember ordering it but it is an Emma Donoghue so I know I’ll like it.
My next planned stop was the bank. I had a Hall deposit – I’ve been putting my deposits through the night deposit window. That window is right beside the cash machine and I’ve often had to wait until no one is at the cash machine to make my drop. Today the line-up for the cash machine was all the way down the front of the building; it wasn’t that much money I was depositing so I decided it could wait for another day.
I intended to drive by the bottle depot to see what the lines were like there but decided since I’d have to go out again and do all the things I didn’t do today the bottles could also wait.
For the rest of the afternoon I’m going to hand stitch the binding on my latest quilt. I’ve taken it downstairs to work on in the evenings but I’m not making much progress. I need to have my glasses off when I’m sewing; we’re watching a show with subtitles and I need my glasses on to read what they are saying so I gave up on it.
I worked outside in the yard yesterday morning and it wasn’t until after lunch that I came upstairs to my sewing room. Yesterday’s block was 18″ so it took longer than most blocks. It was complicated even further because it was almost all done using templates, which had to be cut, traced onto fabric, and cut again. Putting together the first block wasn’t without it’s problems. I was finished and taking the photo when Pat called for supper; it was then that I noticed I had switched around one of the striped blocks. There wasn’t time (or energy) to spend another minute on it so I put it off until this morning.
Memory Wreath
When I saw the name of today’s block I immediately thought of Diane. I dug through the bin of her fabric; I found a lot of fabrics that were meaningful but I did a happy dance when I came across one particular scrap. Diane and I exchanged birthday cards since we first met and it seemed like we both kept them for one reason or another. At some point we decided to re-gift the cards back to each other on our birthdays (e.g., on her birthday I would send her one of the cards she had previously sent me for my birthday with a new note added). One year Diane sent my birthday card in an album she made to hold our cards; the inner fabric of the album was the one I found today.
I have some cleaning up to do and since it is the end of the month I’ll clean my machines, change needles and blades and generally get ready for another month. My leaders and enders basket is empty so I’ll find something to fill it with. And if there is any time left I’ll do some vacuuming and cross stitching.
