Tuesday, March 31, 2020

I might be getting bored; I have lots to do but the same-old same-old is getting a bit old. I’m switching between projects but my March UFO was rather boring – my card blocks – on Tuesday and Thursday. I looked to see if they had revealed the April UFO yet but no such luck. I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what my next Tuesday and Thursday project will be.

I did quite well on my March UFO; I would have liked to have finished the Splendid Sampler (1) blocks but I have two left. There are also a lot of bonus blocks which I will do but finishing the book would have been an accomplishment I could brag about. Oh well, I’m closer than I was at the beginning of the month.

I have several leaders and enders to trim and press before supper. I’m not sure how many pinwheels I need, but the mail-out today said we should be up to 60 of them. I haven’t done a count of what I have, but they are all different sizes so I’m pretty sure I’m still a long way off.

I may be able to finish one of my knitting projects tonight.

Monday, March 30, 2020

I finally got at some actual quilting today; up to now it has just been piecing. I decided I should start slow and small so I’ve done one miniature and I have another one under the needle. Neither are complicated quilting as the patterns seemed busy enough that additional patterns with quilting wouldn’t have shown. I have several more projects ready to quilt and for those I hope to be more daring.

Today’s block went together well. I think I’m learning a lot as the days go by and I piece many different patterns. I’m following the cutting directions given (even if I think I could use a different technique if I were able to do the math), I’m trimming after every seam and taking care to match my points. Nothing perfect yet, but I think I’m doing better.

Today’s block will finish at nine inches.

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.