Thursday, April 30, 2020
Today is the last day to work on my April UFO Challenge and I want to get it done so badly. I won’t finish it this afternoon but I will get it done tomorrow. Not the quilting part but I’ll have the top ready to take to Texada when I’m able to work over there again.
Am I early for Christmas 2020 or late for Christmas 2018?
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Are the days getting shorter? It seems like there is never enough time in the day to get everything done that I’d like to. Today was a mixture of accounting and cards – and I made better progress on the cards than on the accounting.
Although Pat has wound down his incorporated business he is operating as a sole proprietor. Sadly, until the accountant told us earlier in the month, I didn’t realize that I was still supposed to be tracking his business income and expenses. It took some time for Pat to sort it all out between a couple of credit cards and a couple of bank accounts but a few days ago he was able to pass me everything I needed.
I got started last evening with a plan I thought would work. It didn’t so I started this morning with a new plan and it worked with the exception that I started the business in September 2020 rather than September 2019, forgetting that taxes are always a year behind. I managed to get a business up and running that I was able to make entries into. I think (fingers crossed) that it will be smooth sailing from now on.
Thank goodness the deadline has been extended.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Today’s block was pretty easy and I didn’t make any mistakes on it so it went quickly. I had enough time to make a second mask for Pat before the mystery clue arrived in my mail. That clue has taken the rest of my day and I’m still not finished. I’ll continue to work at it until supper.
Pat has an online meeting this evening and I have some accounting work that is screaming “Get me done!” so that’s what I’ll be doing.
Monday, April 27, 2020
I had to make some adjustments for this block. I was using an old shirt for the background and although I thought I had cut ample for a 12.5″ square I was a little short on one side. I could have cut it down to 12″ but then I’d have ended up with a block that didn’t match any of the sizes (so far) in this series. So I’ll end up with a 10″ block and that will fit in nicely.
When I was laying the block out I realized that with the smaller size the template for the leaves was too big. So I found a smaller template to use. The hearts made me think more of Valentines than spring but when I took the photo my mind went back to those Fisher-Price Apples with the bell inside but those leaves are on the wrong side.
I made a very sad discovery today. It was a quilting day but I didn’t feel like spray basting the larger quilt I have so I worked on quilting some cards. My plan for the larger quilt was to do some free-motion meandering so I tried it on a couple of cards. Whatever skills I once had seem to have disappeared. I was able to finish a few cards with some straight lines but now I’ll have to figure something else out for the larger quilt. I don’t suppose my skills vanished overnight and I don’t suppose they’ll return that quick either.