Friday, October 4, 2019

You’d think when you get up at six (after being awake since four) you’d accomplish a lot in the day.

My plan was to get at some cutting for my Saskatoon sewing projects so I could get another free parcel ready for the mail on Tuesday. There were a number of last-minute texts regarding the Hall reno just before, during and after my Guild meeting last night so I thought I should take care of that. It was still early though so I still had lots of time for my plan.

As a result of the Guild meeting last night there were a number of items that needed to be put out on Facebook and sent to several groups around town. The Guild, in an attempt to get more members or just accumulate more funds, have decided to open our demos and classes to non-members. The Program list had to be retyped so as to eliminate any Guild-only days. I haven’t done the postings on Facebook (5 different groups) or sent the information out to four other groups but I think the paperwork is done.

Tickets were also on my list for today – for both Cranberry Hall and Pat Buckna Presents. I took the Cranberry Hall tickets to the newspaper office – they will sell them for us. While I was out doing that I stopped at a Guild member’s house to pick up the Membership information that I should have brought home last night. I didn’t have to stay for tea but I did. On my way home I remembered that I had promised another Guild member that I would pick up some colour catchers for her at Safeway; one of our members brought them to Show and Tell last night. I knew they would sell out fast and after I picked up one box for myself and one for Annie there were just two left.

I decided that the day wasn’t going as planned so I finished more work for the Hall and for the Guild. I’m heading off to a Hall meeting shortly so no doubt there will be more to do tomorrow.

I did manage to get 42 layer cakes (10″ squares) cut and ready for mailing so I guess something went as planned.

Thursday, October 3, 2019

I was out to the Hall first thing this morning – there was money to be collected and I hate to delay that. Since I’ve been home (and finished playing Candy Crush Saga) I’ve been up in my studio looking for small jobs to do before heading off to my afternoon sewing.

One of the things I had waiting for some attention was Deloise’s I’m a Farmer’s Daughter block. Up until this last step I’ve had no problem using the machine for the stitching; when I did my own quilt I used an English Paper Piecing technique.

On Tuesday I had my pieces all cut and ready to go – I’d been told by many of the quilters that curves are easy. I knew that wasn’t the case because Stacia and Deloise had tried it and had no luck. But I really couldn’t stand the thought of digging out all those paper templates. I didn’t even get the pieces under my needle before I knew it was going to be impossible to do it on the machine.

So this morning I tried again with another technique. I was able to stitch the two pieces together by hand but to say it looked terrible is probably a compliment. So I’ve ripped it out and will start over.

Hopefully the third time will be the charm – back to English Paper Piecing.

I was aiming to get a lot done today but I’ve barely made a dent in the pile. I had an opening at the Hall this morning so I told Pat I’d buy him breakfast at the Magpie Diner. I was a bit early at the Hall and it’s a good thing – the contractors were just beginning to move their equipment out of the Hall and everything was covered in dust. Since it was a Somatic Movement class (on the floor) I knew the Hall had to be clean so I got to work. Fortunately the renter was a bit late so by the time she arrived I had cleaned everything up.

I did a bit of computer work but for most of the day I’ve been emptying and refilling bins. My Tuesday bin has been sorted and is ready for tomorrow’s session. I cut and sorted a lot of scraps and squared up 96 half-square triangles for tomorrow’s project. My Show and Tell for tomorrow night is ready to go, even if my report isn’t.

The bag that Pat brought back from Texada for me is unpacked – that resulted in a whole bunch more scraps that need to be dealt with. Do those scraps ever end?

The file folder of paperwork I was given yesterday at the Hall still needs to be dealt with but the cheque has been written so it is only for my own record keeping that I need to sort it all out.

In the time I have between now and the movie (Cinematheque Night) I’ll work on my report for the Guild meeting tomorrow.