Friday, April 10, 2020

I don’t know who names these blocks but this one reminded me that I have a tuffet, some fabric and a tuffet pattern – maybe that’s what I should be making. No rush I guess as the chair the tuffet is meant to go with is in the workshop on Texada.

I finished quilting on my donation quilt today. I’ll attached the binding tomorrow and I’ll have some hand stitching ready for the next few evenings; hand stitching (and knitting) are slow-going when we’re watching a foreign film on Netflix.

After hearing that the request to isolate may not be lifted until summer I mentioned to Pat that once it is lifted we eat out at our favourite restaurants every night for a month (if they even survive after this). One of our favourites (the one where we go to cooking classes) is offering take-out so that’s what we’re having tonight.

Thursday, April 9, 2020

According to the news this morning this self-isolation may last for a few more months – it is getting harder and harder to keep track of what day of the week it is and how many days it has been since I’ve physically been in the company of anyone but Pat!

I wanted today’s block to be a bit Easter-ish. All of the fabric comes from Diane’s bin – she liked florals and I had lots of colours to choose from.

Most of my morning was spent making cinnamon buns. After the disaster yesterday I was pleased with the process of making the dough with my Kitchen Aid mixer. We were able to have warm cinnamon buns for dessert with lunch (we never have dessert with lunch) and they were very good. Not as good as Mum’s but I think they were as good as Christy’s. They don’t take the place of the Hot Cross Buns I wanted but I’ll get over that.

For the rest of the day I’ve been quilting on one of my donation quilts. It is taking a long time even though the quilting pattern is quite simple. Oh well, I have nothing but time!

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

With the exception of my block for the day and a video chat not much has gone according to my plan for the day. The block took forever – it will finish at 16″ and is the largest block so far. It used a lot of fabric and I’m pleased to see my bits & bobs of fabric pieces get used up. But the larger blocks require a larger piece of fabric so it eats into my stash quite quickly. No need for any online orders yet though.

After our video chat this morning I got everything loaded into the bread maker for cinnamon buns; Pat had been wanting them for awhile. I set my timer and continued to work upstairs until it was time to take the dough out of the pan. I’m not sure what went wrong but the ingredients didn’t mix and the whole thing had to be pitched. On first glance it seemed like maybe I had missed some liquid but I reviewed the recipe and I had everything it called for. I’m thinking now that whatever does the mixing in the bread maker may be broken. I’m going to try again tomorrow using my Kitchen Aid mixer; my wrists just won’t allow me to do the kneading that is required for dough.

Wednesday is meant to be a quilting day (in my mind at least) but since there is very little time left in the day I’ll work on my Thursday project (my April UFO Challenge) and get back to the quilting tomorrow.

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

I was like a kid waiting for Christmas this morning – or to be seasonal like a kid waiting for the Easter Bunny. Clue 2 for our Guild’s Mystery Quilt was due today. I thought it would come by e-mail by nine because that is the usual time for our classes to start. That didn’t happen so I thought it would be there by ten. I was disappointed again.

So I got busy doing my daily block and by the time that was finished the clue had arrived. I’ve been working on it all afternoon and I’m still not finished; there is no way I could have completed this mystery in two days had it gone ahead as planned.

I took the car out for another drive today; again, the battery seemed low. I didn’t stop anywhere except the mail box to drop off some letters and I had my disinfecting wipes with me. There were very few vehicles parked along Marine but I was caught in ferry traffic coming from the peninsula. I was surprised at how many vehicles were in the parking lot at the grocery store, the strip mall (with Canadian Tire and the Dollar Store) and at the mall. I guess not everyone is staying at home. The few people I saw on the street weren’t wearing masks although a lot of my sewing friends have started to make them.

Now, back to my mystery.