Sunday, March 29, 2020

I realized this morning that I hadn’t had my car started in almost two weeks. I was afraid the battery would be dead but I managed to get it started; another day or two and I probably wouldn’t have. It was a lovely, sunny day so I went for a short drive. I took the back road out to Highway 101 and then 101 back through Westview, through Townsite and on to Cranberry. After a very short stop at the Hall to check mail I took a longer than usual route home and drove past the house where Margaret lived. I’m hardly ever back that way and I knew there was a new sub-division going in. The road through it isn’t open yet but it looks like it is fully paved.

When I got home I worked on my block of the day. These blocks are always more complicated than they look but I think I’m getting better at them; still some reverse stitching in them though. Because it was such a bright day out I picked some bright colours for my block. I’m assuming there really are 20 triangles in this block but I didn’t count them – I’ll leave that for you.

After the block was done I cleaned up and sorted through some of my leaders and enders; I have bags with half-square triangles in various sizes, as well as a number of different sized pinwheels. At some point I may decide on what I’m going to do with them; I saw a pinwheel design online that looked good but it takes a lot of pinwheels.

I’ve spent the afternoon cross stitching. I’ll go back to it until Pat calls me for supper.

Saturday, March 28, 2020

I had better luck today with my block. In fact, I was finished it by 9:30 – I was up early and after the disaster yesterday I felt I should get an early start. This one finishes at 9″; I used the red fabric because I think it looks a bit like a maple leaf and because Canadians are doing a pretty good job of controlling the spread of the virus.

After my block of the day was done I completed two blocks that will end up in a donation quilt. I had one block finished but I wanted to get the last two done today and out of the way; the fabric for the rest of the blocks is at Gail’s so I won’t be able to access it for awhile. The blocks finish at 16″ so they take some time to make but the good news is that I won’t need many of them.

I wasn’t able to finish my book last night so I’ll take another crack at it now. My two knitting projects are progressing nicely and I’m enjoying switching between the two; neither is particularly complicated either so I’m able to keep up with whatever we are watching on Netflix or Prime.

Friday, March 27, 2020

I dreaded doing today’s block and with good reason. The math I did yesterday was apparently wrong, but it took me until noon to see that it wasn’t going to work. Being as stingy as I am with fabric I didn’t want to waste everything I’d done so I adjusted the pattern to more or less fit the math. The name of this block bears no resemblance to how it ended up.

I’m not sure why I didn’t want to recut the fabric – the patterned fabric is one that made the rounds at the Guild as pretty much the ugliest fabric available; in fact, we had a couple of challenges just to use it up (and I still have some left).

Now that the block is done I’m quitting. I have a good chance of finishing my book today. And I know I’m not supposed to be stressing about my productivity.

Thursday, March 26, 2020

All is well here. Pat went over to Texada this morning; he self-isolated in the truck, drove straight to the studio and self-isolated on the way home. He had some music equipment he wanted to have at home and he picked up my quilting machine for me so I can tackle some of the quilting I had packed when we intended to spend a week over there. I’m finishing up the piecing on the one project I’ve been wanting to get done, not including my UFOs, so it will be nice to move to something different.

I’m keeping up with my Block-A-Day for each of my days of self-isolation. The heartbeat fabric was used to make something for Kathryn and it was her I was thinking of today. No one deserves an Honor Badge more than the essential workers, and particularly those in health care.

I had a short chat from the balcony with one of our House Concert regulars. He works for the newspaper and they are considered an essential service – why I don’t know as there is never anything of note in the paper. He was actually delivering papers so I suspect that many of their local delivery people aren’t working; a lot of them are challenged so they may be staying home.

I have a few leaders and enders to deal with from my sewing today. Then I think I’d better start going through my half-square-triangle bin. I took a peak at the block for tomorrow and it has 36 HSTs and 12 Flying Geese (in a 12″ block).