Friday, December 13, 2019

I finally got around to cleaning this morning – I couldn’t find a good enough excuse not to! I’m not saying you could eat off my floors, but I think you’d be okay following the five-second rule.

After the cleaning was finished I dug out a few Christmas decorations. I’ll add more tomorrow but they are stored in the closet and the closet is full of books, yarn (to give away) and other assorted items headed for the Economy Shop. Not that they’ll be gone tomorrow but I felt I had done enough for the day.

I cleared another surface in my sewing room (the ironing board) and I can actually see clear space on the floor. Last evening I finished sorting through my Christmas fabrics and cutting down scraps so that bin got put away this morning. I had a bunch of bubble wrap on the floor for packing and I put it away. I had a pillowcase full of fabric scraps so I closed it up into a pillow; I’ll drop it off at the SPCA on Tuesday when I come home from sewing.

I’ll spend the rest of the afternoon doing some cross stitching and I may be able to finish those scarves tonight. I have some incentive as the bin of yarn I found in the closet wasn’t all 100% wool (which I don’t use); there are some nice skeins in there that I can use to make some more scarves.

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Just because my Christmas projects are finished it doesn’t mean I don’t have other projects to work on. This morning I decided to clear off one of my surfaces so I could get back to my cross stitching table. In many cases I simply moved things from that surface onto another, but it still seemed like progress when I could sit down and put in a few stitches before lunch.

I didn’t have a clear idea of what I wanted to work on at our Thursday sewing session so I took a bag full of projects. I had an embroidery project that would have made a nice Christmas card but didn’t get finished. I also had another Christmas project cut out that didn’t even get started. The last time I was in a quandary about what to take I dug out my Recipe Mix project – that also went into the bag today. And just in case I did some sewing I had a little package of leaders and enders to put together. When I actually got to Gail’s it was the embroidery project that won out.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll clear another surface – who knows what I might find to work on!

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

I spent the morning finishing up my Christmas cards and getting them ready for the mail. After lunch I went out and did all the errands I couldn’t face doing yesterday. Line-ups at the post office were long but everyone seemed in a jovial mood so I didn’t mind waiting.

I have the very last (I’m promising myself) Christmas projects cut and ready to be stitched. Even if I have a brilliant idea in the middle of the night I’m not going to act on it until next year!

Maybe tomorrow I’ll get at some Christmas decorating!

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

I’m not sure if was the sleepless night worrying about our plumbing or perhaps the rich clam chowder I had for supper but I was sick during the night. I felt well enough this morning to think about sewing but decided not to bother. I had sewing I wanted to get done but I knew if I went I’d be up and down taking photos and when I came home I’d have to write the blog. And I’d have to check mail at the Hall and make a deposit, as well as make a stop at the Post Office. All of a sudden it felt like too much so I stayed in bed awhile longer.

Plumbing issues have all worked out. The restoration people are talking to the insurance people and our emergency plumber charged us his “regular” rate as opposed to his “overtime” rate which saved us a lot of money. Our insurance deductible won’t break the bank either. The fans are blowing in the basement, along with a dehumidifier. The restoration people were back today – it is drying, but it isn’t dry yet. The towels have all be laundered but there is no cupboard to put them in as they took all of that out of the bathroom.

I did a bit of Guild and Hall work at my computer this morning before deciding I wanted a nap this afternoon. I think I’ll dig out my sewing machine now and see if I can get something done before dinner.

I started a new knitting project last night – knitting from both ends of the yarn skein. I found some really Chunky yarn and I had a pattern from Deloise that I wanted to try. I didn’t have the yarn the pattern called for but at some point I figured out the needle size and amount. I was knitting away before I realized the yarn would make two scarves, but how would I know when I was half-done the skein. My solution was to dig out another set of needles and knit one scarf from the inner ball and another one from the outside of the ball. It gets a bit twisted from time to time but so far it has worked well.